{"id":40815,"date":"2018-02-27T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=40815"},"modified":"2018-02-27T20:00:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T20:00:30","slug":"for-the-second-time-in-six-months-a-journalist-investigating-tax-fraud-in-the-eu-has-been-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/02\/27\/for-the-second-time-in-six-months-a-journalist-investigating-tax-fraud-in-the-eu-has-been-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"For the second time in six months a journalist investigating tax fraud in the EU has been killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2018\/02\/26\/police-believe-a-journalist-was-killed-for-reporting-on-fraud-in-the-heart-of-europe\/?utm_term=.8ff78e67b84a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seen this from the Washington Post<\/a>, from yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>European and Slovak authorities believe that an investigative reporter who was shot to death Sunday in Slovakia was killed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/investigative-journalist-jan-kuciak-killed-in-slovakia\/a-42745005\">because of his reporting<\/a>\u00a0on fraud in the central European country.<\/p>\n<p>J\u00c3\u00a1n Kuciak, a 27-year-old investigative reporter, and his partner, Marina Kusnirova, were found dead in their apartment Sunday in Velka Maca, a village east of the capital of Bratislava.<\/p>\n<p>Kuciak worked on\u00a0reports about tax evasion among Slovak elites and had received threats last year from\u00a0Marian Kocner, a businessman about whom Kuciak\u00a0had written. The police did nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday's killings left Kuciak's colleagues in fear and confusion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the second time in six months a journalist investigating tax fraud in the EU has been killed.<\/p>\n<p>We live in very frightening times.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts are with the families of those who died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just seen this from the Washington Post, from yesterday: European and Slovak authorities believe that an investigative reporter who was shot to death<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/02\/27\/for-the-second-time-in-six-months-a-journalist-investigating-tax-fraud-in-the-eu-has-been-killed\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}