BRATISLAVA, Sept.29 (Xinhua) -- Three people has been accused of a serious crime of premeditated murder and other crimes in case of murders of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova, Slovak Prosecutor-General's Office spokesperson Andrea Predajnova confirmed on Saturday.
Originally, eight suspects were detained.
"After their hearing, five persons were released, while charges were pressed against three persons, identified for legal reasons only as T.S., M.M. and Z.A. No more information can be released at the moment. The Prosecutor's Office will provide more details in upcoming days," stressed Predajnova.
Jan Kuciak was an investigative journalist working for news website Aktuality.sk. He and his fiancee were murdered in their house in Velka Maca (Trnava region) on February 21, 2018 with gunshots from a 9 mm pistol.
The double murder provoked mass protests across the country, eventually leading to the resignations of then prime minister Robert Fico along with several other cabinet ministers and state officials.
A total of eight suspects were detained during a police raid in Kolarovo (Nitra region) on Thursday. As many as 55 elite police officers were engaged in the police raid that lasted the whole Thursday.
