Fugitive Czech businessman asks for asylum in South Africa

Czech Television has reported that fugitive Czech businessman Radovan Krejcir, who is wanted for various crimes in the Czech Republic, has applied for political asylum in South Africa. Mr Krejcir, a citizen of the Seychelles, has reportedly hired a team of Czech lawyers who are on their way to South Africa. Radovan Krejcir was detained in Johannesburg last month after he flew in to South Africa with a false passport. In the last two years he lived in exile in the Seychelles where he had fled from the Czech Republic in mid-2005. A court in Johannesburg is due to decide on Mr Krejcir's release from custody later this month.