Stock image. (source: SME - Ján Krošlák)
One of Slovakia's most wanted criminals has been detained in the British city of Peterborough. In the past, Roman Lakatoš was active in an organised criminal group and committed drug-related crimes.
On January 26, 2021, the Specialised Criminal Court issued an international warrant for his arrest on charges of setting up, orchestrating and supporting a criminal group, and for the crime of illegally producing narcotics, poisons or precursors, their possession and trafficking.
On July 25 this year he was convicted in absentia and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Based on the international warrant and thanks to cooperation between the man-hunting unit of the Slovak Police Corps and its counterpart in Great Britain, he was detained in the town of Peterborough, eastern England, on December 19.
Although the Slovak and British police units had some information about Lakatoš' whereabouts in 2021, the situation was complicated because he reportedly employed sophisticated techniques to erase his steps, using aliases and fake documents.
