President of Knovs, Janja Sluga. Photo: Nik Erik Neubauer
The Black Cube Case: Knovs will do a police checkup
The Parliamentary Commission for the Control of Intelligence and Security Services (Knovs) will carry out an inspection of the police in connection with the data submitted to the prosecutor’s office in the Black Cube case, Knovs president Janja Sluga announced in a statement to the media. They decided to do so because of the speculations of some members of Knovs and others regarding the evidence in this affair, Slugova said.
She explained that at today’s continuation of the first regular meeting, Knovs considered the reports of the services on covert investigative measures for last year, and also discussed the work plan for 2026. As she emphasized, the documents did not “contain anything special, nothing that particularly stands out and that should be specially informed about”.
At the same time, she pointed out that in the statements of some members of Knovs, in some media and in the statements of others, manipulations or speculations appeared in connection with the Black Cube affair and the evidence handed over to the prosecution. As she said, she decided to carry out a police inspection in this regard, “so that this manipulation that has circulated does not remain and does not hang in the public eye”.
According to Slugova, some long-term members of Knovs know that “I cannot and must not deny the manipulations they have expressed in their discussions or in their statements, without revealing the confidentiality of the information myself”. Therefore, Janja Sluga also believes that these statements were made deliberately.
Slugova did not name names today, but on Tuesday she accused SDS MP Žan Mahnič of abuse of authority, violation of the law and rules of procedure, when he discussed at the DZ session the information he was supposed to get acquainted with at the Knovsa session.
In fact, Mahnič spoke about the Black Cube affair at an extraordinary session of the DZ and said, among other things, that “there is not a single piece of evidence, and we who were yesterday (Wednesday, op. a.) at the commission for the control of intelligence and security services heard that these recordings were made by the Black Cube agency”.
