Slovak Police continues with the practice of sniffer dog trainings, however the procedure where an actual explosives sample is put into travellers' luggage has been banned, said Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak at a press conference in Bratislava on Thursday.

Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak is no longer a legitimate minister for the main opposition party SDKU-DS. According to former Slovak justice minister Zitnanska, Kalinak has lost any kind of credit to remain on his post.

Slovakia, Bratislava - Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico said he doesn't see any reason to dismiss Interior Minister Robert Kalinak over the explosives incident on January 2 – in which the airport security planted danger explosives in the luggage of unsuspecting passengers.

Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak views the failed police operation involving explosive traveling from Poprad to Dublin in the bag of an unwitting passenger as an individual failure of one police officer. The officer concerned will face disciplinary proceedings. Opposition is calling on the Interior Minister to explain the situation at the ministerial level. "He fails to provide explanations and hides behind his inferiors," said former Slovak Defence Minister.

During the live security tests, Slovak authorities planted eight plastic explosives, in the luggage of unsuspecting passengers. Seven items were detected by airport security, but the eighth one was lost and unwittingly transported to Dublin.

Slovakia, Bratislava - The Police Presidium of Slovak Republic informed that Slovak Anti-drug Office has arrested a 46-year-old Nigerian suspected of importing cocaine into Slovakia.
The smuggler was caught at Bratislava Airport on December 31 after arriving on a flight from Girona. The seized cocaine, which was probably heading for the Austrian black market, would have provided 7,000 doses with a total value of €115,000.

The Court found alleged Banska Bystrica Mafia boss Mikulas Cernak guilty of committing six murders and planning a further killing, sentencing him to life imprisonment in the third, most severe category of penal conditions.