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Kuciak's unfinished article on 'Ndrangheta links published posthumously

On 28 February 2018 Aktuality.sk and partner outlets, including OCCRP, released the unfinished article Ján Kuciak was writing before his murder. It described Italian businessmen with alleged 'Ndrangheta ties who settled in eastern Slovakia, drew EU farm subsidies and built links with people close to Prime Minister Robert Fico, including a state adviser and the security council secretary.

Ján Kuciak (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 28 February 2018 Aktuality.sk and partner outlets, including OCCRP, released the unfinished article Ján Kuciak was writing before his murder. It described Italian businessmen with alleged 'Ndrangheta ties who settled in eastern Slovakia, drew EU farm subsidies and built links with people close to Prime Minister Robert Fico, including a state adviser and the security council secretary.

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  • Ján Kuciak

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    Kuciak's unfinished article on 'Ndrangheta links published posthumously. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.occrp.org — sourceoccrp.org · verified
  2. 2.dw.com — sourcedw.com · verified
  3. 3.politico.euchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: kuciak+ndrangheta · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Kuciak's unfinished article on 'Ndrangheta links published posthumously. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/kuciak-posthumous-ndrangheta-article-2018-02-28

https://factrail.ai/facts/kuciak-posthumous-ndrangheta-article-2018-02-28

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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