BRATISLAVA: Slovakia’s former prime minister Robert Fico and his interior minister Robert Kalinak on Wednesday were charged with setting up an organised crime group, their party spokesman said.
Fico and Kalinak were forced to resign in 2018 after an investigative journalist’s murder exposed high-level corruption and sparked a wave of anti-government sentiment. Their populist left-wing Smer-SD party later lost a snap election.
