Slovenia's intelligence agency has "unequivocally confirmed foreign influences" on the country's parliamentary election held last weekend, the government announced on Thursday.
Following a meeting of the National Security Council, a statement revealed that the Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency (SOVA) "presented concrete activities of a foreign para-intelligence agency as well as contacts with Slovenian entities."
The government confirmed that "the evidence collected, both domestically and abroad, has in the meantime already been handed over to the competent law enforcement authorities, the prosecutor’s office, and the police."
While the statement did not name the agency in question, the allegations have cast a shadow over an election that concluded with no clear winner. Prime Minister Robert Golob’s liberal Freedom Movement secured 29 seats in the 90-member assembly, just one more than the opposition right-wing Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), which won 28.
During the intense campaign, videos surfaced online, purportedly showing secretly recorded conversations involving individuals linked to the government boasting about their political connections.
A coalition of activists and journalists alleged these videos were leaked with the deliberate aim of influencing voters, prompting Slovenian authorities to launch an investigation into the matter.
Further allegations have directly linked the SDS and a private foreign agency, Black Cube, to these recordings, based on intelligence gathered. Janez Jansa, the leader of the SDS, has acknowledged having contacts with an adviser from the Black Cube private intelligence agency but has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.
Vojko Volk, the secretary of state for national and international security, previously stated that Black Cube representatives visited Slovenia four times in recent months, including a street in the capital, Ljubljana, where the SDS party headquarters are located.
Prime Minister Golob has since urged the European Union to investigate the claims. Black Cube, in a statement to the Associated Press, asserted that it is "an intelligence firm which provides services exclusively to clients engaged in business activities worldwide, supporting litigations, arbitrations and white-collar crime cases."
The firm added that it "obtains legal advice in every jurisdiction in which it operates to ensure legality of its activities" and "will continue uncovering fraud, corruption and asset dissipation in all its cases globally as it has consistently done in the past 15 years."
Adding to the gravity of the situation, a separate government statement issued on 20 March detailed that SOVA head Josko Kadivik had presented "a full account of events that took place between 10 and 11 December 2025, along with material evidence of connections of three representatives of the private intelligence corporation Black Cube (Giora Eiland, Liron Tzur and Dan Zorella) to the visit at Trstenjakova ulica 8 in Ljubljana, where the SDS party has its headquarters."
Kadivik’s findings, the statement concluded, "likewise demonstrate counterintelligence operations against the Republic of Slovenia and foreign interference in Slovenian elections."
