They covered up and covered up the misdeeds of related businessmen and oligarchs who should have been in jail long ago
They laundered the millions from their crooked deals through a Chinese washing machine, then shared them on the busy boulevard like Italian mafia bosses paying off their soldiers for selling heroin or coke.
They also protected the nominees of the strongest ruling party who accepted bribes in champagne boxes. They followed opposition politicians, the President of the Republic and journalists in order to scandalise and compromise them. One of them was later disposed of at the hands of a cold-blooded killer.
They thought they were gods that no one would dare. They have created their own state within a state: with its own, greatly distorted rules. In the first and last place was money. When someone resisted them, they were set up by the National Crime Agency.
The Padre clan did not deal in narcotics; its main asset was influence and its stock in trade was impunity. He acted on the orders of the highest political circles, especially the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior. Organized crime sat at the top of the pyramid where the state was the mafia.
But after the election victory of the common man, the mega-machine of corruption began to stutter. With his testimony, one of the clan members triggered an avalanche that took everything in its path with it. Corrupt politicians, police officers, prosecutors and prominent judges.
It took six years to get the shocking story of the Slovak police mafia into the investigation files. And now you will learn about it in this audiobook that maps one of the darkest periods of modern Slovak history. The author also drew on personal testimonies of penitents and key players from within the system.
At the same time, he spent long hours in interviews with investigators, prosecutors and judges dealing with the most serious cases of organised crime links with politics, the judiciary and the security forces. Welcome to the world of dirty money, intrigue and unchecked power.