Slovak PM offers cash reward for information on journalist's murder

BRATISLAVA, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced on Tuesday that the government will offer a 1-million-euro (1.2-million-U.S.-dollar) reward to anyone who can provide information about the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak.

Jan Kuciak, a 27-year-old investigative reporter for Slovak news website Aktuality, whose focus was mainly on suspicions of major tax frauds, was found shot dead in his house with his girlfriend in Velka Maca, western Slovakia last week.

"If the death of investigative reporter Kuciak had been linked to his journalistic work, it would be an unprecedented attack on freedom of the press and democracy in Slovakia," Fico said earlier Monday, adding that the murder of two young people should not have taken place in Slovak society under any circumstances.

Kuciak is the fifth journalist murdered in the EU in the last decade, according to Reporters Without Borders.

"His murder was most probably related to his journalist activities," Slovak Police Corps President Tibor Gaspar told a press conference on Monday. Enditem