MEZINÁRODNÍ ORGANIZOVANÝ ZLOČIN ABEZPEČNOST OBČANŮ ČR

Abstract

The Czech Republic has a crucial geographical position in Europe. Since
the „Iron Courtain“ fell in 1989, many criminals have been using its territory for
illegal activities such as illicit trading in drugs, stolen vehicles, cigarettes,
weapons, explosives and nuclear materials, and aliens, as well as counterfeiting,
professional theft, extortion, financial frauds and money laundering. The local
underworld in the Czech Republic meets with criminal groupings from the former
Soviet Union, the Balkans, Italy and Western Europe, Asia, Latin America, Middle
East and Sub-Saharan Africa to create a new, much more developed „crime
industry“. The organised crime also has a tendency to penetrate the Czech society
and economy, to bribe governement and administrative officials, thus secure
imunity from investigation and prosecution in creating a paralel economy of crime.
The organized criminal activities directly threaten the security and the quality of
life of the Czech citizens.