MF Dnes: police block Krejcir funds

The Czech daily Mlada Fronta Dnes has reported that Czech police have blocked fugitive businessman Radovan Krejcir, awaiting an extradition ruling in South Africa, access to some 30 million crowns on accounts in the Czech Republic. Radovan Krejcir, wanted in Prague on a number of charges including fraud and conspiracy to murder, confirmed the accounts had been frozen. He told the newspaper that the funds belonged to his mother and that they were dividends from business dealings. According to the report, she was to transfer the sum to a South African account. Radovan Krejcir escaped from Czech police during the search of his family's luxury villa in June 2005. He took refuge in the Seychelles before being arrested in South Africa earlier this year.