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schema:articleBody	The brother of a Slovak businessman charged with ordering the 2018 murder of an investigative journalist, has testified that the entrepreneur said he wanted to "take down" a reporter six years earlier. Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova were gunned-down gangland style in their home allegedly on the orders of well-connected Slovak entrepreneur Marian Kocner, whose business activities the reporter had been probing. Kocner has pleaded not guilty to having ordered the hit on Kuciak. The killing exposed high-level political corruption in the small eurozone country, paving the way to the ousting of the populist-left Smer-SD party from power and the victory of opposition forces in February's parliamentary elections. Judge Ruzena Sabova read out the testimony of Kocner's brother Ivan, who opted not to testify in person on Monday. "Marian said that one journalist needs to be taken down, and then another one, for them to stop being bothersome," Ivan Kocner said in a statement to a court in Pezinok, a town north of the capital Bratislava. Ivan Kocner indicated that the testimony concerned comments by his brother made in 2012, but it was not immediately clear whether he was referring to Kuciak. Facing 25 years to life in prison if convicted of ordering the hit, Marian Kocner called his brother's testimony "a lie", according to the aktuality.sk news website where Kuciak had been employed. According to the indictment, Kocner decided "to get rid of Kuciak physically and thus prevent further disclosure of his (Kocner's) activities" after failing to find "any dirt" to discredit the journalist. Last month, the Pezinok court sentenced former soldier Miroslav Marcek to 23 years in prison for gunning down Kuciak and Kusnirova. The trial continues on Tuesday with the final verdict expected in June. juh/mas/bsp
schema:headline	Slovak tycoon wanted journalist 'taken down': brother
schema:mentions	Direction – Social Democracy Bratislava Investigative journalism Juh Slovakia Eurozone Court Minute and second of arc Maid Marian Miroslav of Hum Final Verdict Pezinok Political corruption
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schema:datePublished	2020-05-18 (xsd:date)
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