In the Czech Republic Bechara is suspected of participation in the kidnapping and death of Lambert Krejcir, the father of fugitive Czech billionaire Radovan Krejcir. In Slovakia Bechara has failed to turn up in court for over a year.
However, he was present at court today to hear the acquittal verdict. A district court in the Bratislava-Raca neighbourhood is dealing with another case in which Bechara is suspected of fraud. In the case in which he was acquitted of charges today, Bechara was accused of the belated payment of a 2-million-crown loan to the Boat accident in Congo leaves dozens dead ...
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Czech court acquits foreigner of abduction charges ... Petina International arms trading company that filed a suit against him. However, Bechara has returned the debt in the meantime. Regardless of this, the prosecutor appealed the verdict and the regional court will deal with the case again. In the other case, Bechara has been accused of failing to pay for a luxury car. He was sentenced to three years in prison but appealed the verdict and the case will be heard again. He told CTK that he was not guilty. Slovak police arrested Bechara at the Czech authorities' request at the end of 2006. Slovak courts first made his extradition to the Czech Republic conditional on the completion of the court proceedings in Slovakia but finally agreed with his extradition. However, he was released from custody in the Czech Republic shortly after his extradition last July. Since then he has never appeared in Slovak courts. Czech police suspect Bechara of several crimes, for instance, involvement in the kidnapping and death of Lambert Krejcir who died on October 15, 2002. He is also suspected of having embezzled Radovan Krejcir's property. A court in Ceske Budejovice, south Bohemia, is dealing with another case in which Bechara is accused of fraud involving millions of crowns. According to Radovan Krejcir's lawyer Tomas Sokol, the fraud is worth 750 million crowns. ($1=20.387 Slovak crowns, 16.065 Czech crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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