Damage ascertained from total crime displays a negative trend, particularly for damage ascertained from economic crime and the fall in damage insurance. In terms of long-term trends, the proportion of damage caused by registered economic crime to total damage due to crime has risen sharply. Economic crime includes in particular criminal activity in the state s fiscal interests, connected with the infiltration of state administration structures and the subsequent control of economic processes, with the aim of legalising the proceeds of crime. The Czech Police recorded an increase in offences connected with economic discipline and economic competition, breaching duties in managing assets and fraud. Tax evasion, which significantly upsets the country s economic stability, remains a problem and displays high latency.
Corruption is one of the most serious security risks.
Corrupt behaviour by organised crime structures in the Czech Republic is mainly apparent in politics, the social field and in the economy, and in essence affects all parts of society. In recent years the majority of cases of suspicion of corrupt behaviour have related to various kinds of bribery. Intellectual property is a serious problem in view of the steadily rising number of infringements of intellectual property rights, which is especially associated with the option of acquiring good quality illegal imitations and copies very easily and quickly. Compliance with intellectual property rights is an essential condition for decisions by foreign companies operating in the Euro-Atlantic region on locating investments into modern technology in the Czech Republic. The state s inability to eliminate risks conditioning the trends and structure of crime are most apparent in the area of restricting the factors which enable serious economic crime.