Twenty-five-year-old police officer accused of money laundering from cash machine thefts
An officer from the Regional Traffic Inspectorate in Bratislava allegedly received and concealed money from robberies at cash machines. The Office of the Inspection Service detained her during Operation Hamlet.
Twenty-five-year-old police officer accused of money laundering from cash machine thefts
An officer from the Regional Traffic Inspectorate in the capital faces serious charges. Twenty-five-year-old Lenka J. allegedly helped investigators conceal the origin of money obtained through criminal activity.
As stated by the spokeswoman of the Office of the Inspection Service Andrea Dobiášová, cited by the portal pluska.sk, the woman allegedly received cash derived from attacks on cash machines. She subsequently concealed these funds, used them for her own purposes, and carried out transfers intended to disguise their true origin.
The investigator charged her with the crime of money laundering. She was detained as part of an operation called Hamlet, carried out by the Office of the Inspection Service. The raid was conducted in cooperation with criminal investigators from the Regional Directorate of the Police Force in Trnava and with partners from the Czech Republic and Hungary.
According to Dobiášová, the accused deposited money through cash deposit machines into accounts from which she transferred them further. The final recipient was allegedly a person identified as P. Ž., who was detained abroad thanks to international cooperation. This woman is being prosecuted in connection with a cash machine explosion in Dolné Salibiky in Galanta district.
The Office of the Inspection Service believes that the conduct of the accused police officer at the same time helped P. Ž. evade criminal prosecution. The police officer is currently being prosecuted whilst at liberty.
Source: Nový Čas