The UOOZ policemen, who have decided to depart, complain that instead of searching for dangerous criminals, they had to deal with common thieves. A couple of days ago, violent crime section chief Petr Planansky, one of the leading investigators, left the UOOZ and other members plan to do so, too. An officer leaving the squad told the paper that his superiors prefer investigating car and antiquity robberies to more serious crimes, such as the penetration of mafia into high politics. Another detective pointed out that at least two extensive organised crime groups similar to the "Berdych gang," that is mafia cooperating Czech court orders custody for extradited Berdych gang members ...
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Largest number of children since 1993 born in CzechRep last year ... with the police, are operating in the Czech Republic without being suppressed, MfD notes. The Berdych gang case is the largest organised crime case in the Czech Republic in which up to 50 people were allegedly involved, including elite policemen.
The gang, abusing police information and police equipment in its criminal activities, is suspected of murders, robberies, extortion of rich entrepreneurs and attacks on lorries. UOOZ chief Robert Slachta explained to MfD that his subordinates were completing older cases so they did not open any new ones. Under former UOOZ chief Jan Kubice, who headed the unit until February, the elite detectives succeeded in accusing the 40-member Berdych gang, revealing murders around controversial businessman Frantisek Mrazek, who was murdered in January 2006, and a group of extortionists from west Bohemia, while the biggest success of the current UOOZ team has been the detention of 12 people suspected of procuring, MfD writes. Kubice was highlighted in the media in connection with his report that stirred up a scandal ahead of the June 2006 general election. The document mentioned links between the then Social Democrat (CSSD)-run administration and organised crime. The now opposition CSSD claimed that the report harmed it on the eve of the elections and filed a complaint against the police and Kubice on suspicion of an unlawful interference in the election campaigning, but the state attorney's office concluded that no such crime was committed.
(Ceske Noviny)
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