The Slovak Interior Ministry issued a communiqué saying that it was looking into the Marchevsky’s case with its intelligence services and would provide further information once the investigation was completed.

Reuters reported, citing the “Deník N” text, that when Marchevsky was sanctioned by the Czech Republic, he traveled to Slovakia, where the new cabinet of Prime Minister Robert Fico has adopted a policy of improving relations with Russia.

The Czech government put Marchevsky on the sanctions list when security services there linked him to a Russian-organized network designed to influence European Parliament elections.

Restrictions were also extended to the pro-Russian ‘Voice of Europe’ internet platform, registered in the Czech Republic. The Czech government justified the restrictions, calling the website’s activities as “promoting the foreign policy interests of the Russian Federation and political and propaganda activities directed against the territorial integrity, independence, stability and security of Ukraine.”

“Deník N” wrote in March that money was transferred in Prague to politicians of the anti-establishment German AfD, as well as from other European countries, including France, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Hungary.

It is not clear what role Marchevsky played in these transfers.