Vitek has branched out to France, Germany, and Switzerland. He started off by importing blankets from Germany after communism collapsed in 1989. Vitek was involved in the voucher privatization of Slovakia in the 1990s before moving to the Czech Republic in 1997 where he initiated the hostile takeover of a bee cooperative and turned their headquarters into a luxury hotel. After the commercial real estate markets collapsed in 2007 he bought properties cheap to invest in them. Vitek is a traveler who owns a yacht worth $20 million.