FILE PHOTO: A journalist lights a candle in memory of murdered investigative journalist Jan Kuciak, in Trencin, Slovakia, February 26, 2018. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa/File Photo
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia's parliament deputy speaker resigned on Thursday over contacts with a businessman charged with ordering the murder of a journalist last year that sparked mass protests which ousted then Prime Minister Robert Fico.
Martin Glvac, leader of the Bratislava chapter of Fico's Smer party, is the highest-ranking individual to resign over contacts with politically-connected entrepreneur Marian Kocner, whose extensive reach within the state was revealed by the investigation into the killing.
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