Czech fugitive speaks up in court, he explains how he got
his two Seychellois passports.
On Wednesday 8th July in South Africa, Czech fugitive
Radovan Krejcir took the stand to support his fifth bail application at the
Germiston Magistrate’s Court in connection with the murder of Lebanese businessman
Sam Issa. Led by his lawyer Annelene Van den Heever, he told the court in slightly
accented English that contrary to the correction made on the record earlier, he
had only been convicted in absentia in the Czech Republic on three cases, not
four, and that two more were either pending or on appeal.
Krejcir |
Krejcir explained that there had been an attempt on his life
in Seychelles and explained why he had the second passport. ‘’That was for
security reason because the Czech Republic government tried to kill me in Seychelles,’’
he said. Due to his health, he needed an MRI scan and at that time the country
did not have that equipment. So, another passport was issued for him in the
name of Savy. His wife and sons were also issued Seychellois passports.
However, he was put on the spot by Prosecutor Lawrence
Gcaba, who wanted to know how the Seychelles Government, which he claimed had persecuted
him, would have organized a new identity for him. Krejcir then further
clarified by saying that the Savy passport, with its altered picture, was
issued before he was persecuted by the Seychelles government and was “organised
by the Ex President of the Seychelles for him”.