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Sachergate, Lizner and the coupon privatisation directed by the Harvard Funds, but also the LTO scandal, or light heating oils, which reveals the dark and bloody face of the 'wild nineties'. The troubles of twelve police presidents who faced numerous scandals, such as the Rum Affair or the Zeman's Briefcase case, and also dealt with three mass murders. The consequences of the Kubice Report and Šlachta's raid on the Office of the Government. But also the 'Sarajevo assassination' of Klaus and the opposition agreement as a model for political cooperation. The dark 'bankruptcy mafia' case of Judge Berka, the mark of Cain of the Pilsen law school in the form of trafficking in degrees, but also the ProMoPro case. The media-hyped Rath case and its similar features to the hot Motol case and other corruption cases in the healthcare sector of the post-Velvet Revolution era. And finally, the trail of Krejčíř's accomplices, which in one case leads all the way to the Slovak mafia. The past, seen through the eyes of criminal records, is not the past at all. The consequences of the deeds of that time are reflected in our lives, and the actors in these cases are still active in the political and business scenes today. The book is a readable encyclopaedia that, from a certain angle, maps the modern history of Czechia from the post-Velvet Revolution era essentially up to the present day. Detective KAREL TICHÝ dedicated 26 years of his life to the police force, in the last years of his career as an officer of the elite anti-corruption service, which uncovered the most serious economic crime. In the anti-corruption service, he managed operations concerned with gathering information through wiretaps, but especially in the field, often with the help of informants. And so he witnessed the beginnings of today's prominent business figures, who often operate on the edge of the law, or have even slipped into the murky waters of crime. He is the author of the successful book Lovec mafiánů (Mafia Hunter) (2021). On the PrahaIN portal, he published a series of articles with HANA HLUŠIČKOVÁ, from which the book Kudy kráčel zločin (Where Crime Walked) (2023) emerged. The precursor to this book was a series of articles on the same portal, Aféry kauzy.cz (Scandals Cases.cz).