Italian arrested about whom Kuciak wrote

The Slovak police arrested an Italian businessman who was described in an article by the recently murdered investigative journalist Jan Kuciak.

A court in Venice issued a European search warrant for this and asked for extradition. Seventeen people have been arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking and money laundering.

Kuciak, who also investigated fraud in government circles, worked until he was shot to a report about Italian businessmen in Slovakia who would have ties with the Calabrian mafia. The killer is without trace. The police held on 7 March seven people for questioning, among whom V., but had to let them go again.