Mahnič said that he was looking forward to the supervision of Knovs. Photo: Luka Cjuha
Mahnič insists that he did not release classified information
SDS MP and member of Knovs Žan Mahnič insists that when discussing the Black Cube affair, it was not about “any release of any secret information”. As he said in a statement to the media in the DZ, the visit of individuals connected to Black Cube to the SDS headquarters is not proof that Black Cube was filming people who “bragged about corruption in Slovenia”.
“If Sova doesn’t have anything, of course you can’t give out any secret information,” said Mahnič. “It would be different if I said that Sova has this, this and this specific matter. That would be the release of classified information,” he said.
Janja Sluga, the president of the parliamentary commission for the control of intelligence and security services (Knovs) and member of Svoboda, announced today that the commission will carry out an inspection of the police in connection with the data handed over to the prosecutor’s office. They decided to do so because of speculation by some Knovs members and others regarding the evidence in this affair, she said.
Today Slugova did not name names, but on Tuesday she accused SDS MP Žan Mahnič of abuse of authority, violation of the law and rules of procedure. 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 proof that the recordings were made by the Black Cube agency, adding that they heard this at the first meeting of Knovs.
Janja Sluga said that at today’s continuation of the first regular meeting, Knovs discussed the reports of the services on covert investigative measures for last year, and they also discussed the work plan for 2026. As she emphasized, the documents “did not contain anything special, nothing that particularly stood out and that should be specially informed about”.
Mahnič said today that he is looking forward to the supervision of Knovs, because “Janja Sluga will be very disappointed”. He invited her to go to the Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency (Sova) to see “what they have or, rather, what they don’t have”.
He announced that he would ask the director of Sova to remove the level of secrecy from everything related to Black Cube, and he accused the former director of Sova, Joško Kadivnik, that “he was Robert Golob’s main publicist in the last week of the election campaign”.
