Sugar Trade in Context of Czech Organized Crime

The article focuses on sugar trade in the context of Czech organized crime; it mainly deals with organized sugar-tax frauds. Sugar is considered to be a lucrative commodity through which organized criminal groups can generate profit. In the first part of the paper we contextualize sugar trade with the history of Czech organized crime. The second part emphasizes a social dimension of this organized criminal activity and the final parts discuss deterrent effects of contemporary punishments for this agency and the future of organized sugar-tax frauds in the Czech Republic.