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| - An investigative journalist covering high-level graft in Slovakia has received a death threat, the editor-in-chief of the aktuality.sk news website said on Friday. The case comes more than two years after the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak who was gunned down gangland-land style as he was about to expose high-level graft in an article for aktuality.sk. Peter Sabo, a data-analyst reporter at the news website, found a bullet in his mailbox on Thursday, according to editor-in-chief Peter Bardy. "I would really like to believe that it was a kid's joke, but after the experience of more than two years ago, I know that if it's not a joke, it can kill," Bardy said. Slovakia's national police chief Milan Lucansky said in a Friday statement that an investigation was underway and that "necessary measures" had been put in place, without elaborating. Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova were shot dead at home on the alleged 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. His murder trial is set to continue in July. The killing exposed high-level political corruption and ousted the governing party from power. Peter Sabo has reported on Slovakia's narcotics underworld, allegations of wrongdoing against a former justice minister, as well as VAT fraud. "There are many reasons to be afraid that the bullet in the mailbox may not have been a joke," Bardy wrote. juh/mas/lc
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