Today, one of the icons of the wild nineties and the most sought-after people in the history of the Czech Republic celebrates its fiftieth ninth birthday. Viktor Kožený – a man whose face is known to almost everyone who turned on the television in the 1990s. In the Czech Republic, he tunneled several companies in which ordinary people invested their savings. However, he was never punished for it and has been in search of the police for almost twenty years.
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His the famous Harvard funds deprived small shareholders of tens of thousands of crowns, as a result, Kozeny became a billionaire. He also transferred the money to a tax haven in the Bahamas, and the Czech courts have not been able to deal with it for many years. He has so far bought real estate around the world, such as a villa in the American mountains, and the arrest warrants probably don’t bother him too much. She’s looking for him Czech and American police.
Viktor Kožený was born into a rich family living in Prague, but at the age of fifteen he moved to Germany with his family. He did not return to Prague until 1991 and immediately threw himself into business. This is where coupon privatization takes place and Kožený jumps into it like a train. He promises people that if he entrusts his coupons to him, he will provide them with a tenfold profit. Many trusting Czechs actually entrusted their money to him. It was a fatal mistake.
Life in the Bahamas
Viktor Kožený never intended to earn trusting people, but only to enrich himself. The Harvard holding, together with its partner Boris Vostrý, tunneled the holding’s shareholders by tens of billions of crowns. According to the American indictment, he was to commit other crimes during the coupon privatization period in Azerbaijan.
Kozeny, meanwhile, moved to the Bahamas. This country has an indisputable advantage for it: it does not extradite its citizens to the Czech Republic or the USA. At the behest of the American authorities, the Bahamians detained him several times, but they always released him. Although he is accused of large-scale bribery in the United States, if Kožený is careful, he can avoid prosecution forever. On the day of his 59th birthday, he can be relatively calm, just like in this interview for Czech radiowhere he talked about the details of his actions
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