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Place of Birth: Ružomberok, Slovak Socialist Republic, Slovakia
About Marián Kočner
- Marián Kocner (born 17 May 1963) is a Slovak entrepreneur operating mostly in the spheres of risk investment, financial development and property business.
- His name appeared in so-called "mafia lists" - a set of documents allegedly leaked from police in 2005 containing list of people suspected of involvement in organized crime and vehicles used by them, intended as an aid for police patrols.
- Kocner's business practices had been a prominent topic of articles by Ján Kuciak, an investigative journalist from Aktuality.sk who was murdered in February 2018.
- Couple of months prior to Kuciak's death, Kocner had allegedly threatened to "dig up dirt" on Kuciak by phone, saying "I will focus especially on you, your mother, your father, on your siblings.".
- Kuciak had filed a criminal complaint but a subsequent police investigation concluded that Kocner's alleged statements did not constitute a criminal offence.
- After Kuciak's murder, general prosecutor Jaromír Cižnár ordered the case to be reopened, however police again closed the case with conclusion that Kocner's statements do not constitute criminal offence.
- Aktuality.sk subsequently published transcript of the phone call between Kuciak and Kocner.
- He is also connected to Alena Z.
- (suspect charged of ordering murder) via Alena Z.'s daughter as her godfather.
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