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In Latvia’s resort city of Jurmala, people have recently been talking about a man named Romans Hains — possibly a lawyer, possibly an activist, or perhaps a professional complainant.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Frankfurt (Germany), eight searches were carried out and one individual was arrested yesterday on suspicion of orchestrating a €18 million VAT carousel fraud through the sale of small electronic goods.

Rat poison has been discovered in a jar of HiPP baby food, according to police in Austria, following a product recall from more than 1,000 Spar supermarkets in the country over safety concerns.

The wife who concealed the crimes of evil killer Jozef Puska will be released from prison at the end of this year.

Czech corporation Alta has continued to service machines that are used by the main producers of Russian tanks and artillery.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bratislava (Slovakia) and Liberec (Czechia), multiple searches and investigative measures were conducted today in Czechia and Slovakia, in a probe into suspected large-scale customs fraud and VAT evasion involving the imports of textiles, shoes and e-commerce goods from China into the EU.

Leaked transcripts and audio recordings reviewed by The Insider and its investigative partners suggest that a direct hotline between Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov may have been used to relay sensitive information on key EU matters to Moscow.

Governments in five EU member states are “consistently and intentionally” eroding the rule of law, Europe’s leading civil liberties group has warned.

As investigations into the overseas assets of fugitive MP Yaroslav Dubnevych and his daughter Roksolana Pyrtko unfold, inconvenient information has begun disappearing from the internet, while references to the property and business structures linked to his circle are gradually being wiped from open sources.

Hundreds of people gathered in Bratislava and other cities across Slovakia on Saturday to mark the eighth anniversary of the killings of investigative reporter Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová.

OCCRP member centers found that an Italian man with business in Slovakia has been convicted on drug charges involving a group linked to the ‘Ndrangheta mafia. But the alleged ‘Ndrangheta links to Slovakia don’t end with him.

Several people were injured on Sunday evening after two passenger trains collided on the main railway corridor between Pezinok and Bratislava, Slovak authorities said.

Ukraine has targeted a crucial pumping station on the Druzhba oil pipeline, which delivers fuel from Russia to Europe, halting supplies to Hungary and Slovakia, the only EU member states still receiving Russian oil.

Vyacheslav Belimenko was born in 1976 in the Kyiv region of Ukraine. Until 2014, he was a completely unremarkable businessman.

The governor of Slovakia’s central bank was charged with bribing an official in 2016, during his tenure as finance minister.

A 55-year-old man has been killed by a wild brown bear while foraging for mushrooms in a Slovakian forest.

Slovakia’s government confirmed this week that it would disband a police agency investigating associates of ruling party politicians, while the justice minister freed a former prosecutor who was jailed after accepting bribes from a crime boss.

At least five people are dead and five more are injured after a bus collided with a train in southern Slovakia.

Slovakia’s former Prime Minister Eduard Heger and Defense Minister Jaroslav Naď are facing possible criminal charges for helping Ukraine.

Fico remains in intensive care but has ‘emerged from immediate threat to his life’, Robert Kaliňák tells reporters

Fico underwent a second surgery on Friday to save his life after he was shot 4 times on Wednesday.

Researchers at the Slovakia-based cybersecurity company ESET have uncovered two new backdoors, dubbed LunarWeb and LunarMail, which they believe were likely used by a Russian state-affiliated hacking group to infiltrate the foreign affairs ministry of an unnamed European country.