Interior Ministry believes financial cost of organised crime has risen sharply

Official estimates of the economic damage caused by organised crime in the Czech Republic have been revised sharply upwards. Czech Television reported on Tuesday that the Ministry of the Interior’s anti-mafia plan had in the past put the damage at hundreds of millions of crowns a year. However, in the first half of 2014 the Ministry believes that organised crime cost the state CZK 11 billion. The government is due to discuss the ministry’s latest strategy paper on Wednesday, when ministers will also discuss a new criminal code.

Author: Ian Willoughby