Two Step East on CEE crime realities--from gangsters to Bulgarian casino mobsters (i.e. the Skull winning in court) to KYC re Swiss bankers and Companies House to a massive child pornography bust; and is your neightborhood as safe as you think?
Yes, after a two-week hiatus (sorry, but sometimes your man in the field has to be... erm in the field) Two Steps East is back with your favorite consulting detective and the following topics: letters (and thanks for writing in); just how safe is your neighborhood (specifically Warsaw, but this generally applies to major cities in the region) anyway--and the dangers posed by low-level crime, not to mention the stark reality of poor media coverage and a dramatic (and frighteningly huge) child pornography bust in Poland; how Swiss bankers managed to overlook a red-flag Balkan narco mobster--and the KYC questions surrounding the UK's Companies House registry; another edition of "WT_ is going in the Balkans," which notes the jumble (and irony) of politics in the region, the Serbian-Kosovo (and more) question, which is currently spurred by the ongoing Kosovo license plate row; more on the Polish Sowa tape scandal that never seems to entirely go away and finally...
A whole lot more in between.
Enjoy, be safe, and check out the links below (which is a partial response to a letter).
Feel free to also check out www.cddi.pl if you need risk intelligence or detective services in the region, and there under the contact info you will find a mail if you would like to send in comments.
First the Guardian article (kudos for the great work):
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/oct/06/cartel-journalist-gangland-killings-netherlands-peter-r-de-vries
An article on Kotor from BIRN:
https://balkaninsight.com/2022/10/26/drug-crime-casts-long-shadow-over-montenegrin-coast/
Finally, the new Czech crime site, which documents "crime in your neighborhood"--quite a cool thing. Hope it lasts:
https://kriminalita.policie.cz/