Krejcir released on bail

A court in Johannesburg has released fugitive Czech businessman Radovan Krejcir on a three million crown bail. Court proceedings will continue with regard to his possible extradition to the Czech Republic where he is wanted for extensive fraud and conspiracy to murder. Krejcir has asked for asylum in South Africa claiming that he would be persecuted in his homeland and that the former government had ordered his father's murder. Radovan Krejcir fled the Czech Republic in 2005, escaping with his family while the police were raiding his villa, and started a new life in the Seychelles where he had acquired citizenship. He was arrested on an Interpol warrant in Johannesburg in April when trying to make a secret trip to South Africa.