Kuciak murder investigation team dissolved

The Police Corps President Milan Lucansky on Tuesday dissolved the team that was investigating the murders of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova, the police have reported on a social network. Lucansky has dissolved the originally 82-strong investigation team with regards to the fact that a prosecutor at the Special Prosecutor's Office (USP) on Monday (October 21) filed charges against Marian Kocner and three other people - Tomas Szaboo, Miroslav Marcek and Alena Zsuzsova, relating to the murders of Kuciak and Kusnirova. The investigation file containing 25,000 pages and 160 supplements is thus no longer in the hands of the police. The evidence also includes 50 terabytes of data from mobile operators and camera recordings. Investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova were murdered in Kuciak's house in south western Slovakia on February 21, 2018. The person who ordered the murder paid at least €70,000 for it.