Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Vietnamese Organized Crime in the Czech Republic 1st ed. Edition Miroslav Nožina full chapter instant download
Vietnamese Organized Crime in the Czech Republic 1st ed. Edition Miroslav Nožina full chapter instant download
https://ebookmass.com/product/organized-crime-and-illicit-
trade-1st-ed-edition-virginia-comolli/
https://ebookmass.com/product/organized-crime-11th-edition/
https://ebookmass.com/product/illegal-mining-organized-crime-
corruption-and-ecocide-in-a-resource-scarce-world-1st-edition-
yuliya-zabyelina/
https://ebookmass.com/product/heroin-organized-crime-and-the-
making-of-modern-turkey-ryan-gingeras/
Czech Mate 1st Edition Paulin
https://ebookmass.com/product/czech-mate-1st-edition-paulin/
https://ebookmass.com/product/peace-and-violence-in-brazil-
reflections-on-the-roles-of-state-organized-crime-and-civil-
society-1st-edition-marcos-alan-ferreira/
https://ebookmass.com/product/retail-crime-1st-ed-edition-vania-
ceccato/
https://ebookmass.com/product/czech-security-dilemma-russia-as-a-
friend-or-enemy-1st-ed-edition-jan-holzer/
https://ebookmass.com/product/water-crime-and-security-in-the-
twenty-first-century-1st-ed-edition-avi-brisman/
CRIME PREVENTION AND
SECURITY MANAGEMENT
Vietnamese
Organized Crime in
the Czech Republic
Miroslav Nožina · Filip Kraus
Crime Prevention and Security Management
Series Editor
Martin Gill
Perpetuity Research
Tunbridge Wells, UK
It is widely recognized that we live in an increasingly unsafe society,
but the study of security and crime prevention has lagged behind in its
importance on the political agenda and has not matched the level of
public concern. This exciting new series aims to address these issues
looking at topics such as crime control, policing, security, theft, workplace
violence and crime, fear of crime, civil disorder, white collar crime and
anti-social behaviour. International in perspective, providing critically
and theoretically-informed work, and edited by a leading scholar in the
field, this series will advance new understandings of crime prevention and
security management.
Vietnamese
Organized Crime
in the Czech Republic
Miroslav Nožina Filip Kraus
Institute of International Relations Sinophone Borderlands - Interaction at the
Praha, Czech Republic Edges, Department of Asian Studies
Faculty of Arts, Palacky University
Olomouc, Czech Republic
This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
1 Introduction 1
6 Conclusions137
B
ibliography145
Index165
v
About the Authors
ix
x Abbreviations
For decades, the Vietnamese criminals have been easily crossing state
borders, creating networks and introducing new modi operandi of criminal
activities to the host countries. As a result, Vietnamese crime has become a
problem in the Southeast Asian countries, Australia, the United States,
Canada and the Russian Federation. Regarding Vietnamese organised
crime groups in the European Union (EU) countries, their presence was,
for example, recorded in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the
Netherlands. Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
Vietnamese criminal networks, which are frequently active interna-
tionally, are engaged in a broad spectrum of criminal activities such as
human smuggling and the trade in human beings, managing the trade in
illicit commodities, money laundering, violations of customs and tax
laws, other forms of economic crime, violent crime, theft, counterfeiting
activities, trafficking in weapons, production of and trafficking in drugs,
wildlife crime and so forth.
In the Czech Republic, the Vietnamese diaspora has existed since the
1950s, and the number of its members has steadily grown, especially
since the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Currently, approximately 65,000 peo-
ple of Vietnamese origin are legally living in the country. It is the third
biggest Vietnamese diaspora in the EU countries, after those in France
and Germany.
Together with the new immigrants from Vietnam, new kinds of crime
have appeared in the CR as well. During the 1990s and 2000s, the
Vietnamese criminal networks fully developed their organisational struc-
ture within the diaspora and established the modi operandi of their crimi-
nal activities. Their bosses, who frequently merge together legal and
illegal activities, create parallel power structures within the Vietnamese
diaspora, and some of them were able to establish corrupt ties to the
Czech public administration.
In order to address the deficiency in the research of Vietnamese organ-
ised crime, the authors of this study carried out a research programme
that took place between 2007 and 2019 mainly at the Institute of
International Relations, Prague. Since 2019, Filip Kraus also carried his
own research that took place within the research project Sinophone
Borderland—Interactions at the Edges. Within the researches, several
1 Introduction 3
The key actors who connect the legal and illegal elements of the
diasporas are “respectable men”—strong personalities acting as both legal
businessmen and criminal bosses—who make use of considerable eco-
nomic power and maintain corruption networks, patron-client ties, and
groups of criminal delinquents. As such, the “respectable men” create
parallel power structures that enforce their will within the diaspora and
they are respected for their ability to “mediate” disputes among the dias-
pora members.
Not only economic pressure and expected profits but also a solidarity
born from the village mentality and the complicated network of mutual
“gratitudes”, while rejections of a request for a counter-service for a
respectable man are not frequent in Vietnamese communities, are the
motion behind the engagement of diaspora members (who are basically
without criminal backgrounds) in criminal activities organised by these
strong men. The roles of various criminal delinquents and violent gangs
in the scheme of Vietnamese diasporic life and the roots of the tolerance
of a criminal underground within the diaspora are clearly visible in the
light of these facts.
This interpenetration makes the situation more complicated and allows
for further intrusion of criminal networks into Vietnamese communities.
Many criminal activities are just cubes in a complicated mosaic of the
Vietnamese diaspora’s life. One of the main problems in combatting the
Vietnamese organised crime is the inability of security forces to separate
the “legal” and the “criminal” components within the diaspora. The
“stage of ambiguity” frequently leads to the criminal stigmatisation of
whole ethnic communities, and also to an inability to trace the criminal
activities, especially in their transnational dimension.
To answer the question of the role of criminal networks in the
Vietnamese diaspora, we argue that legal and illegal activities are in a
dialectical unity in Vietnamese communities. The necessity to break this
unity is the main condition for efficient suppression of the Vietnamese
criminal activities within the diaspora.
10 M. Nožina and F. Kraus