Bratislava, May 22 (TASR) - The District Prosecutor's Office in Banska Bystrica has launched a criminal investigation into the leaking and publishing of information from Premier Robert Fico's (Smer-SD) medical files following last week's assassination attempt on him, Prosecutor-General (PG) Maros Zilinka has posted on a social network.

Based on an instruction of a Banska Bystrica district prosecutor, a criminal investigation was launched on May 17 concerning the offence of unauthorised handling of personal data, said Zilinka.

Fico was seriously injured by multiple gunshots fired by a 71-year-old man following an away-from-home government session in Handlova (Trencin region) on May 15.