"Guru Jára" extradited from Philippines to Czechia

The Czech police have extradited the man nicknamed "Guru Jára", who has been on the run since 2012 to avoid serving a prison sentence for a rape conviction. He has been extradited via Taipei to a Prague prison from the Philippines, where he fled in 2015.

"Guru Jára", whose real name is Jaroslav Dobeš, faces 5.5 years in prison for pressuring his female pupils into having ritualised sex with him under the pretence of offering lessons in yoga and Eastern philosophy. He was arrested in the Philippines in 2015, but the final decision on his extradition took the local authorities over seven years, as the man took advantage of all the available possibilities for appeal and judicial review.