Italian national Anti-Mafia and Counter-Terrorism Public Prosecutor Federico Cafiero de Raho spoke at a conference in Trnava on Monday about how mafia groups are rooted in Slovakia as well as Europe, the operations of the Italian criminal organisation 'Ndrangheta in Slovakia, and the necessity to adopt common legislation against mobs. "They aim to establish themselves in countries where the fight against them isn't too intense. At the same time, they operate in fields that aren't extraordinary, but in which it's easy to invest and to 'hide'," he noted. Raho expressed his doubts about the decision to dissolve the team that was investigating the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak, who in his last unfinished article wrote about 'Ndrangheta's presence in Slovakia.
Roman Kvasnica - a lawyer for the family of Kuciak's fiancée, who was murdered with him - commented that the results of the investigation have shown that Slovak state authorities, especially the Police Corps and the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS), were not able to reveal or dismantle serious criminal activities, on the contrary letting them grow so much that they began to threaten and subsequently decompose the Slovak establishment.
