If we look at the structures of Czech organized crime in the 1990s in terms of how far the tentacles of this octopus reached, the group around Radovan Krejcir probably went the furthest.
In the early 1990s, Krejčíř entered privatisation through Corado and others. People voluntarily, but also involuntarily, sold him coupon books, thanks to which he participated in the privatisation of dozens of companies. To achieve the desired result, he then intimidated or, more often, brutally attacked other key players in the competition.
In addition to privatisation fraud, drug crime and a series of murders and robberies, Krejčíř is also associated with extensive and relatively sophisticated economic crime. This is characterised, for example, by the game around the company Čepro. Krejčíř is also known to have compromised and blackmailed politicians or, on the contrary, to have obliged them. However, due to the growing number of frauds directly at the expense of the state, his role in politics could no longer be hidden and so there was pressure to arrest him and cut him off from key state business. The story of the Krejcir boss did not end with his execution or his long imprisonment. On 18 June 2005, under controversial search circumstances, he managed to escape abroad, where he has been pursuing his mafia career ever since. The question of his possible return to the Czech Republic is still open, which is causing considerable nervousness in political and criminal circles.
