Two and a half years after sexual assault, fraud and other allegations against a man running the Fotopub gallery in Ljubljana erupted into a major scandal, an indictment has been filed against the gallerist Dušan Smodej.
The scandal broke in August 2022 as several individuals posted testimonies on
Matjaž Škorjanc, the author of a malicious code used in the Mariposa botnet that infected millions of computers around the world between 2008 and 2011, has been let off the hook as his case became statute barred.
Škorjanc, at the time 23, was arrested in Maribor in July 2010 after a two-year invest
Police special forces arrested three men in Ljubljana on 5 December after a mafia-style execution of a Bosnian national connected with organised crime sent shockwaves through the country.
The arrests came six days after a man identified as Satko Zovko (earlier known as Satko Kekić) was shot in his
One of the two foreign nationals using diving gear in an attempt to retrieve a large shipment of cocaine from a ship docked at the Koper port in March has been sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty, while the second one failed to reach a plea bargain with the prosecution and will
The Maribor police have arrested five people suspected of putting into circulation large amounts of counterfeit euro banknotes forged by an Italian criminal organisation.
The arrests are the culmination of a year-long investigation, which ended last week.
Five suspects have been apprehended, three
A young man who threatened passers-by with two knives at a busy bus stop in the Ljubljana city centre in March this year has been found guilty of assault on police officers and sentenced to one year of psychiatric treatment.
The 23-year-old pleaded guilty and the Ljubljana District Court handed dow
The leader of an Italian crime syndicate who had been on the run for six months has been arrested in the Slovenian seaside city of Koper. He has been convicted of multiple crimes, including drug trafficking, extortion and kidnapping, and was on the run from a 21-year prison sentence.
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The police have tracked down a 36-year-old man believed to be responsible for an online comment threatening a school shooting attack that caused a considerable amount of alarm, heightened security around schools and criticism of the police in early April.
The threat was made on 2 April in the comme
Slovenian police conducted searches at two dozen locations on 23 April as part of a probe into allegations of bribery at the state-run motorway company DARS under the previous management.
The police said six persons were suspected of abuse of office and accepting or offering bribes. They did not na
