Organised Crime in the Slovak Republic1
Studia Prawnicze. Rozprawy i Materiały 2018, nr 2 (23) • Studies in Law: Research Papers 2018, No. 2 (23) ISSN 1689-8052 • e-ISSN 2451-0807 Tomá š Strémy prof. JUDr., PhD, Department of Criminal Law, Criminology and Criminalistics, Faculty of Law, Comenius University in Bratislava, the Slovak Republic Natá lia Hangá č ová JUDr., Department of Criminal Law, Criminology and Criminalistics, Faculty of Law, Comenius University in Bratislava, the Slovak Republic Lukáš Turay M.A., Department of Criminal Law, Criminology and Criminalistics, Faculty of Law, Comenius University in Bratislava, the Slovak Republic Organised Crime in the Slovak Republic1 1. Organised Crime in the Slovak Republic Having moved into the next century, organised crime and its activities still continue to be an issue. We may recognise some of the activities from count- less action fi lms and television series, but we should not be lulled into believ- ing that these practices take place only on the screen. Th e most typical or- ganised crime activities include drug dealing, extortion, murder-for-hire, and traffi cking in human beings. For the most part, the Slovak Republic became a target of these activities after 1989, and the events that took place during this period led to radical changes in the civic, economic, social, and political life in the country. On the fi rst day of January 1990, on the fourth day after being elected president, Václav Havel (president of the former Czechoslova- kia) announced an amnesty for nearly 80 per cent of the convicted off enders in the country. Twenty thousand off enders, approximately 8000 of whom were Slovaks, would be released from Czechoslovak prisons, creating ideal conditions for the birth of organised crime in Slovakia.
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