Fugitive businessman Krejčíř can be tried in absentia

The High Court in Prague has ruled that fugitive Czech businessman Radovan Krejčíř can be tried in absentia, Saturday’s edition of Právo writes. A breakthrough verdict clarifying Mr Krejčíř’s status as a fugitive now paves the way for Czech prosecutors to bring some of the charges leveled against Mr Krejčíř to court. Radovan Krejčíř is wanted in Prague in connection with a string of violent crimes, and on charges of large-scale property fraud. A court in South Africa, which Mr Krejčíř entered on a false-passport in April last year, recently ruled against extraditing him to the Czech Republic for criminal prosecution. Czech courts will now consider charges against him in his absence.