Speaker of Parliament meets tycoon to discuss articles

Speaker of Parliament Boris Kollar (We Are Family), who on Friday held a private meeting with the co-owner of the Penta financial group, Jaroslav Haščák, stated on Monday at a press conference that the goal of the one-on-one was to ask Haščák why the media belonging to Penta have been launching attacks against him, and whether they've been doing so at Haščák's behest. When approached by Dennik N journalists after the meeting on Friday, Kollar explained that they discussed several articles regarding him published by the weekly Plus 7 dni and the daily Plus 1 den; while on Haščák's side, he claimed that he met with Kollar because he's writing a book about politics in Slovakia. The journalists also asked Kollar whether he isn't afraid that someone will deploy a shill to monitor him. "By all means, let them deploy a shill. When the situation allows it and the shill will be a nice-looking woman I'll even have sex with her," reacted Kollar.