When the heavy prison doors clanged shut behind Mikuláš Černák nearly three decades ago, few imagined they might one day open again. But on the spring morning of May 20, inside the fortified walls of ...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, June 29 (UPI) -- A top Slovak mafia boss has been shot dead in Bratislava in what police said could be a new war between rival gangs, Markiza Television reported Tuesday.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Slovak President Andrej Kiska says the country's government ignored warnings from intelligence services about the activities of an Italian criminal syndicate whose members ...

IN THE past few years, the term “real estate mafia” has gained public currency in Slovakia. Police and the media now use it to refer to organised groups that, lured by the rocketing value of land near ...

Murdered Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak was about to publish an investigation alleging high-level political corruption linked to the Italian mafia, the news portal he worked for revealed Wednesday ...

Mr Kuciak was investigating whether Ms Troskova could have been a go-between for the mafia and the Slovak government when he was murdered, according to the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting ...

STRBSKE PLESO, Slovakia (Reuters) - Slovakia must produce deeds not words to stamp out corruption and mafia-style crime, the prime minister said, after the murder of a journalist investigating EU ...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) - Slovak police conducted raids Thursday on houses linked to alleged members of the Italian mafia in connection with the recent slaying of an investigative journalist.

Slovak police on Thursday raided several houses belonging to suspected Italian Mafia members as part of their probe into the slaying of an investigative journalist. As many as seven suspects were ...