Former police chief establishes private security agency

The former head of the Czech police’s organized crime squad Jan Kubice has set up his own private security agency, Czech daily Lidove noviny reports. According to the paper, the agency will specialize in information and intelligence gathering activities.

Mr Kubice came to prominence as the author of a report that claimed that organized crime had infiltrated the Czech civil service. The so-called “Kubice Report” was hugely controversial as the Social Democratic Party, which was in power at the time of its publication just before the general election in June 2006, claimed it had been fabricated to damage their election chances. Mr Kubice left the police force at the end of January.

Author: Coilin O'Connor