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🔹The report says operatives posing as representatives of a fake British investment fund called “Stockard Capital” lured Slovenian political figures into meetings and secretly recorded them, including former Justice Minister Dominika Švarc Pipan, during staged business meetings in Vienna and other locations.

🔹Mladina also reports that senior Black Cube figures met right-wing opposition leader Janez Janša in Ljubljana on December 22, 2025. Then, roughly ten days before the election, edited videos of government figures began appearing anonymously online on a site called anti-corruption2026(dot)com.

🔹Black Cube became internationally notorious for working on behalf of Harvey Weinstein, conducting covert surveillance of journalists and attempting to gather damaging information on women who accused the convicted rapist. This operation to target government figures echoes their previous efforts.

🔹The scandal lands in the middle of an election where Slovenia’s stance on Palestine has been a significant dividing line. Prime Minister Robert Golob’s center-left government has taken one of the strongest pro-Palestine positions in the EU. Slovenia recognized the State of Palestine in 2024, imposed a total arms embargo on Israel in 2025, has announced intention to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ, and banned imports from illegal Israeli settlements. 🔹Janša’s right-wing opposition opposed recognizing Palestine and maintains close ties with Israeli leadership. Black Cube is often described as a “private Mossad” because of its links to Israeli intelligence networks (it was founded by former members of Israeli military intelligence Unit 8200) and to figures close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The firm’s alleged role in the election is likely to raise questions among European leaders about what Netanyahu knew about the operation