The Ordeal

The seizure of the mobile phone of a mafia businessman suspected of murdering an investigative journalist has exposed a network of judicial influence in major cases. Big asset transfers, the removal of the country’s highest-ranking general in NATO, the bullying of the inconvenient… The trials that followed the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée have shown that there has been no improvement in the judiciary, and that the key problem is not the legislation or the equipment of the courts, but the staffing of the third power, which in many cases has become distant from justice.