Slovak court acquits businessman in retrial over 2018 murder of journalist

Marian Kocner (Petr David Josek/AP)

A court in Slovakia has acquitted for a second time a businessman accused of masterminding the 2018 slaying of an investigative journalist and his fiancee.

The Specialised Criminal Court in Pezinok, near the capital, Bratislava – which handles Slovakia’s most serious cases, ruled on Friday that Marian Kocner was not guilty of murdering Jan Kuciak, who had written about him in the past, and Martina Kusnirova, both aged 27.