The verdict has not yet taken effect and may be appealed. According to the prosecution, Miekigi abducted entrepreneur Jakub Konecny on the order of Konecny's business partner Krejcir. Miekigi and Krejcir allegedly forced Konecny to sign blank promissory notes, empty sheets of paper and tax documents.
Afterwards they released him. The police believe that with the aid of the blank documents, Krejcir gained real estate worth 35 million crowns from Konecny. Within the case, Krejcir has been charged with extortion and criminal confinement in a separate trial. His proceedings started in Prague this week. Konecny, Austrian-Czech commission on Temelin ends, problems remain ...
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Foreigners make up 4 percent of population in CzechRep - stats ... however, disappeared again in 2005 and has been missing since. The police admit he is possibly no longer alive. He is also accused in another case, concerning drug possession and extortion. Krejcir has been prosecuted in the Czech Republic for a number of property and violent crimes. He has stayed in South Africa since April 2007 when he arrived there on a false passport from the Seychelles where he fled in 2005 and of which he has citizenship. A court in Johannesburg decided earlier this year that Krejcir will not be extradited to the Czech Republic for criminal prosecution. ($1=15.574 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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