The prime minister of Slovakia has hit out at people seeking to portray his country as a mafia state following the murder of a reporter investigating government corruption, but conceded that the “professional” killing was proving difficult to solve. He had recently been examining claims that a senior aide to Fico had business links with a man suspected of ties to the Italian mafia. The problem is that the murder did occur on Wednesday, but the people were reported missing on the Sunday. Trošková had been a business partner of Antonino Vadala, 42, an Italian living in Slovakia with alleged close ties to Italy’s ’Ndrangheta mafia group. Journalists are risking all to expose the Italian mafia.

Source: The Guardian April 13, 2018 12:16 UTC