Slovak crime agency contacts SME daily editor who was reportedly intimidated

The National Crime Agency (NAKA) on Friday contacted SME daily journalist Andrej Valcek, who was reportedly intimidated by criminally prosecuted entrepreneur Marian Kocner, the police said on social media. "The National Crime Agency has started to act proactively based on information in the media," the police said, adding that police officers personally contacted the journalist and compiled a report on the matter. "Further steps in the sense of valid legislation will now be taken," they said. SME daily reported that Kocner had intimidated its reporter Valcek who, along with Trend weekly journalist Zuzana Petkova, had been preparing a story on the Technopol case in which Kocner gained 500,000 euros in a shady manner. Kocner had also allegedly intimidated murdered journalist Jan Kuciak over this case.