Balkan Organized Crime Sets up in Prague Published: Monday, 23 November 2015 10:26 Written by Pavla Holcova (CCIZ) and Stevan Dojcinovic (OCCRP/KRIK) Prague, the post-card perfect capital city of the Czech Republic, has long been hugely popular with tourists. But it’s also very popular with other, less desirable visitors: Balkan organized crime groups. Reporters for KRIK, working with the Czech Center for Investigative Reporting, discovered that dozens of companies established in the Czech capitol are directly linked to powerful Balkan organized crime groups that make their money from drug trafficking, murder-for-hire and cigarette smuggling. Some of these companies are engaged in the gambling business and control chains of casinos. Others […]
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