 | Former Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico will not be going to jail after parliament narrowly failed to approve a motion to suspend his immunity from prosecution while he is being investigated on organized crime charges. 74 MPs voted in favor of letting a court decide whether Fico should be taken into pre-trial custody, leaving the motion to suspend his immunity two votes short of passing. “Some may have [voted] out of naivete, some from idiocy, some for money, and some just wanted to buy insurance in case they ever faced justice themselves.” |  |
 Slovakia PM Robert Fico turned the country into his own personal fiefdom which he ran for ten of the 12 years from 2006-18. | Huge street protests triggered by the murder of an investigative journalist forced Fico's resignation. Last week the exclamation point: investigators in Bratislava fingered him as a mob boss who formed and ran an organized crime group during his time in office. |
 | Fico resigned after the 2018 slayings of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, Martina Kusnirova. Kuciak had been investigating government corruption and ties to ‘Ndrangheta when he was killed. |  Slovak Marian Kocner was busted for ordering the murders. He had close ties to Fico. |
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