Under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, farmers in the EU are given subsidies in order to supplant their income and allow farmers "to make a reasonable living". According to the law in Slovakia, anyone who farms on the land can claim subsidies, even if they do not own the land itself. These laws meant that fraud could be committed quite easily. Journalist Ján Kuciak was going to publish an article alleging that several million Euros in subsidies had been lost due to fraud, but he was murdered on 26 February 2018.