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Two cocaine divers were spotted at the Koper port (pictured). Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA
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
Stanko Vidovič, the chief of Maribor criminal investigators, holds a fake €50 banknote as he presents a money counterfeiting investigation. Photo: Gregor Mlakar/STA
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
Special task police deployed to subdue a man threatening people with two knives. Photo: Luka Tetičkovič/STA
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
Police officers making an arrest in Ljubljana in 2020. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA
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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A police sign on a windshield. Photo: Nik Jevšnik/STA
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
The Ljubljana headquarters of DARS, the motorway company. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
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
Convicted businessman Sergej Racman. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Businessman Sergej Racman, once one of the wealthiest Slovenians, has started serving prison time for cutting off creditors in the 2014 sale of the largest cinema complex in the country.
Racman, who started off in stock trading and finance before moving to entertainment and casino business, was sen
The headquarters of British national broadcaster BBC. Photo: Aljoša Rehar/STA
The Ljubljana District Court has sentenced four Slovenians to jail for their involvement in an email scam that defrauded the British national broadcaster BBC of €336,000. A fifth defendant has been acquitted.
Several Slovenian newspapers have reported that the court handed down the sentences on 10
Silvo Drevenšek sentenced to life in prison for a triple murder. Photo: Andreja Seršen Dobaj/STA
A man who stabbed his former partner to death before going next door to murder her parents in the presence of his four-year-old son on Christmas 2020 has been sentenced to life imprisonment as the first person in independent Slovenia to receive such a sentence.
In sentencing Silvo Drevenšek, the S
The Koper port. Photo: Bojan Kralj/STA
Police seized a large shipment of cocaine in the port of Koper a few days ago, reportedly after two divers were spotted trying to pull out large bags from a ship transporting soy from South America.
The Koper Police Department has confirmed seizing a large quantity of illegal drugs in the port in t
Police at the scene negotiating with a man threatening people with two knives. Photo: STA
Special tasks police were deployed at busy area in the centre of Ljubljana on 13 March to subdue a young man who was threatening people with two knives.
Police received a tip-off at around 3pm that a man holding a knife in each of his hands was threatening passers-by next to a busy bus stop at Bav
A prosecutor. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
The house of a state prosecutor in the seaside town of Koper was hit by three Molotov cocktails on 25 February in what the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office says appears to have been a planned and organised attack, likely related to her work.
The Supreme State Prosecutor's Office condemned the viol