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BIS POINTS AT GANGS' CONTACTS WITH POLITICIANS
Prague Daily Monitor
26 September 2008
Czech Republic
Prague, Sept 25 (CTK) - Contacts and links in the Czech state
administration, police, the judiciary and politicians' surroundings
help organised crime legalise gains, says a BIS counter-intelligence
annual report for 2007 released Thursday.
It says the most significant groups of organised crime came from
Russian-speaking countries, from the Caucasus and the Balkans, and
that corruption plays an important role in establishing contacts with
state structures.
BIS writes that Russian-language crime has ties with businessmen,
unspecified "advisers to state officials" and persons "with extensive
client ties to certain former and current politicians and top civil
servants."
Besides extensive contacts in the Czech criminal environment, these
groups also cooperated with experts, such as lawyers, financiers and
advisers of various kind and orientation, BIS writes.
The report writes that gangs with Russian roots attempted in 2007
to overcome internal discords and to get united under a Russian
alternative of a Mafia godfather.
"This effort was complicated by the violent conflict between the
Chechen and Armenian groups that culminated with attempts to murder a
high-ranking representative of one of the groups. The police detained
the hired murderer on the basis of BIS information," the report says.
The tension prevails because the Russian-speaking groups have been
unable to agree on the division of territory in Prague.
In Moravia, the influence of the Ukrainian, so-called Luhan group of
organised crime, was growing last year, BIS said.
According to it, Ukrainians do not respect any "laws" of the
environment and are active in trafficking in arms, in debt and
protection money extortion, securing prostitutes from Ukraine, people
kidnapping and murders.
BIS also says in its report it has recorded, but has not fully checked
signals about effort to influence courts in deciding on punishments,
which means that some lawyers act minimally at variance with ethical
norms.
The report also mentions the effort by some former policemen to use
their old contacts to their own benefit when they are prosecuted or
when they want to legalise illegal incomes.
BIS writes that organised crime has also started to focus on university
students for links.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Prague Daily Monitor
26 September 2008
Czech Republic
Prague, Sept 25 (CTK) - Contacts and links in the Czech state
administration, police, the judiciary and politicians' surroundings
help organised crime legalise gains, says a BIS counter-intelligence
annual report for 2007 released Thursday.
It says the most significant groups of organised crime came from
Russian-speaking countries, from the Caucasus and the Balkans, and
that corruption plays an important role in establishing contacts with
state structures.
BIS writes that Russian-language crime has ties with businessmen,
unspecified "advisers to state officials" and persons "with extensive
client ties to certain former and current politicians and top civil
servants."
Besides extensive contacts in the Czech criminal environment, these
groups also cooperated with experts, such as lawyers, financiers and
advisers of various kind and orientation, BIS writes.
The report writes that gangs with Russian roots attempted in 2007
to overcome internal discords and to get united under a Russian
alternative of a Mafia godfather.
"This effort was complicated by the violent conflict between the
Chechen and Armenian groups that culminated with attempts to murder a
high-ranking representative of one of the groups. The police detained
the hired murderer on the basis of BIS information," the report says.
The tension prevails because the Russian-speaking groups have been
unable to agree on the division of territory in Prague.
In Moravia, the influence of the Ukrainian, so-called Luhan group of
organised crime, was growing last year, BIS said.
According to it, Ukrainians do not respect any "laws" of the
environment and are active in trafficking in arms, in debt and
protection money extortion, securing prostitutes from Ukraine, people
kidnapping and murders.
BIS also says in its report it has recorded, but has not fully checked
signals about effort to influence courts in deciding on punishments,
which means that some lawyers act minimally at variance with ethical
norms.
The report also mentions the effort by some former policemen to use
their old contacts to their own benefit when they are prosecuted or
when they want to legalise illegal incomes.
BIS writes that organised crime has also started to focus on university
students for links.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress