Krejcir is suspected of having Konecny kidnapped in April 2002.Today's verdict has not yet taken effect, it can be appealed.The police say Kosovo Albanian Jetullah Mjekiqi, along with other unidentified men, had Konecny kidnapped on Krejcir's order.
Mjekiqi allegedly forced Konecny to get into his car at gunpoint and drove him to a recreation complex in Central Bohemia where the kidnappers kept him overnight.Afterwards they transported Konecny to a leased office where he, in Krejcir's presence, Mailbox ...
Slovak businessman prosecuted in Czech Republic wins case ... was forced to sign blank promissory notes, empty sheets of paper and tax documents. By this, Konecny's real estate in Dobrichovice and Cernosice near Prague was transferred onto Krejcir, the police say.In the afternoon, Konecny was released.Krejcir faced charges of extortion and deprivation of freedom in connection with the kidnapping.Konecny disappeared again in March 2005. Later he was declared dead.Mjekiqi, one of the suspected kidnappers, has been prosecuted separately. This June a court acquitted him of freedom deprivation charges but the verdict has not taken effect yet.The court said Konecny had been undoubtedly kidnapped, but there is no evidence to prove Mjekiqi's involvement.Czech law enforcement bodies prosecute Krejcir for vast property and violent crime. Krejcir escaped from the Czech police in June 2005 and left abroad.Since April 21, 2007 he has stayed in South Africa. On February 1, 2008, the court in Johannesburg decided that Krejcir should not be extradited to the Czech Republic for prosecution. The verdict has not yet taken effect.
(Ceske Noviny)
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