{"id":5400,"date":"2026-09-13T19:34:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2026-09-13T19:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:38:13","slug":"the-investigator-crimes-of-the-privileged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/news\/the-investigator-crimes-of-the-privileged\/","title":{"rendered":"The Investigator: Crimes of the Privileged"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 22, 2026, at 7 pm<\/strong>
\nBohemian National Hall
\n321 E 73rd St, New York City<\/p>\n

The Investigator: Crimes of the Privileged, True Cases That Were Meant to Remain Hidden<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A special book preview with the author VLADIMIR DZURO<\/strong>,
\nan emeritus police investigator and former head of UN Investigative Teams.<\/p>\n

\"book<\/p>\n

In his book, The Investigator: Crimes of the Privileged,<\/em> recently published in the Czech Republic, Vladim\u00edr Dzuro takes us behind the scenes of the highest levels of global diplomacy. What do war criminals, dictators, corrupt politicians, and senior officials have in common? The intoxicating grip of power \u2014 the belief that they are untouchable and that their power places them above the law. <\/strong><\/p>\n

RSVP on Eventbrite [LINK]
\nTickets: $5 (plus processing fee) are available through Eventbrite.
\nSeats are limited on a first-come, first-served basis.
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\nVladim\u00edr Dzuro, <\/strong>Emeritus Police Commissioner, served as a Criminal Investigator with the Police of the Czech Republic from 1983 to 1995, first in the Criminal Police Department and later at the National Central Bureau of Interpol in Prague. He took an active part in the work of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR) in 1994 and, starting in April 1995, he served for more than nine years as an investigator with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands. Until March 2023, he headed the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) in New York. He currently lectures as a freelancer in the Czech Republic and abroad. <\/p>\n

Dzuro\u2019s previous book, The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War<\/em> (2019, Nebraska Press)<\/a>, is a firsthand report on the operations that led to the arrest of the first war criminal in the former Yugoslavia, as well as his investigations into numerous war crimes committed in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Part investigative memoir and part real-life thriller, it offers a rare inside perspective on the pursuit of justice in the Yugoslav wars. The book is available in English.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nThis event is organized by the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) in New York in collaboration with the Consulate General of the Czech Republic and with the support from the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association (BBLA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 22, 2026, at 7 pm Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St, New York City The Investigator: Crimes of the Privileged, True Cases That Were Meant to Remain Hidden A special book preview with the author VLADIMIR DZURO, Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,42,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-121","category-events","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}