Fugitive Czech ex-MP detained in Paraguay

A sixty-four-year-old man from Ostrava was arrested in Paraguay, the Czech Police announced on the X network on Friday.  According to the Paraguayan media, the detainee is Petr Wolf, a fugitive former MP who was sentenced to six years in prison for subsidy fraud.

Mr. Wolf, who was a Social Democrat backbencher, has been on the run since 2013. Czech police located Wolf in Paraguay in 2019, but he has so far avoided detention, because there is no extradition agreement between the two countries.