Task Force to Combat Organized Crime

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The Einsatzgruppe D to combat organized crime (EDOK) was a special unit of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior. It has been part of the Austrian Federal Criminal Police Office since 2002 and its name no longer exists.

EDOK scandal

In the last years of its existence it became known that top officials of the EDOK not only maintained intensive contacts with the Eastern Mafia, but were also involved in their business on a case-by-case basis. In October 2000 an EDOK official in charge of the job was suspended because he wanted to bribe the German journalist Jürgen Roth with 600,000 DM (300,000 euros) on behalf of a Russian mafia sponsor .

In April 2002 three high-ranking EDOK investigators were arrested. They were suspected of having worked for the Eastern Mafia for years and, for this purpose, of having built up a network of favoritism, bribery and illegal data transfer that reached into the Viennese and Lower Austrian provincial governments and the telecommunications authorities.

history

The EDOK was set up by Decree 5300/38-II / D / 92 (signed Federal Minister of the Interior, Dr. Löschnak) of November 30, 1992. By means of decree 2232/32-II / 5/93 (4020/78-II / D / 93), the organization and rules of procedure of the crime departments were changed in March 1993 and the main subject area 13 (organized crime) was added. After the Criminal Code was changed in October 1993 (Section 165 Money Laundering) and the Banking Act (Section 41 Reporting Obligations) came into force on January 1, 1994, the Austrian Money Laundering Reporting Office was set up in the EDOK. Until it was leased on June 1, 1994 in an office building in 1120 Vienna, Stachegasse 13, the EDOK was housed in the premises of the Federal Office building in 1090 Vienna, Josef Holaubek Platz 1. After the development phase, an express national announcement was made to all police and gendarmerie departments in July 1995 by means of introductory decree 8100/17-II / D-EDOK / 95 with the approval of the then General Director, Mag Sika. On July 1, 1998, an ordinance of the BMI (Federal Ministry of the Interior, signed Schlögl) on the special units of the General Directorate for Public Safety (special units ordinance) came into effect on the basis of §§ 6, 14 and 15 of the SPG, in §1 under others the task force of group D to combat organized crime (EDOK) is in force. The area of ​​responsibility was outlined with the focus on fighting organized crime, unless the responsibility of the EBS (task force to combat supra-regional or organized drug-related crime) or EBT (task force to fight terrorism) is given. On August 1, 1999, the EDOK lost its observation and its technology, which was incorporated into II / D / 16 as Section 2. The EDOK was dissolved on January 1, 2002 with BGBl II No. 1/2002. Parts of the EDOK at that time can now be found in various departments of the Federal Criminal Police Office (.BK) and at the Cobra Task Force.

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