Foreign criminal groups have been attempting to replace disintegrated domestic organized crime groups in Slovakia since 2015, reported the Special Prosecutor's Office. The foreign ethnic makeup of these groups poses a problem for authorities when acquiring relevant information on their organizational structure and criminal activities. According to the report, organized crime has wised up and transferred its activities from the sphere of extortion, violence and drug-related crimes to more sophisticated forms, such as crimes in financial matters. No major organized crime group was disintegrated in the past year, although there were follow-up prosecutions of individual members of the groups disintegrated prior to 2015.
Mojmir Prochazka, Photo: TASR
