Czech embassy to South Africa demands Krejcir's detention

The Czech Republic's embassy to South Africa has filed a request with the South African foreign office asking that the Czech fugitive billionaire Radovan Krejcir be remanded in custody for 40 days instead of 18 days as originally proposed. In the meantime the Czech Justice Ministry plans to lodge an extradition request with the South African authorities. Radovan Krejcir was arrested at Johannesburg airport at the weekend after spending nearly two years in exile in the Seychelles. Mr Krejcir is wanted in the Czech Republic for various crimes, including conspiracy to murder, money forgery, tax evasion, extortion, and abduction. He has already been sentenced in absentia to six and a half years in jail for fraud.