Viktor Kožený, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Viktor Kožený

Czech fraudster

Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1963

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Profession: entrepreneur, criminal

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Viktor Kožený

  • Viktor Kožený (born 28 June 1963 in Prague) is a Czech-born fugitive financier.
  • According to Bloomberg News, he graduated from Harvard in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
  • However, he can not be located in the Harvard Alumni directory as of 2015.
  • Viktor Kožený is an Irish citizen imprisoned in the Bahamas in 2005 but released in 2007.
  • He currently lives in a gated community in the Bahamas.
  • Efforts to bring him to justice stem from both the Czech Republic and the USA.
  • An international warrant has been issued for Kožený, who in the early 1990s ran one of the great scams of the post-Communist era.
  • By the media he is often called "the pirate of Prague".He was imprisoned after a US extradition request but that was refused by Bahamian authorities in October 2007. In February 2008 a court case against him and his partner Boris Vostrý started at Prague Municipal Court.
  • Kožený has remained in the Bahamas and has not been attending the trial.
  • He asked the prosecution to publish the charges on the Internet, which the state prosecutor has refused to do.
  • His defense counsel later published the indictment upon order from Kozeny. In 2010 Kozeny was convicted of fraud by a Czech court and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and ordered to pay damages equal to hundreds of millions USD.
  • In 2012, the judgment was reaffirmed by the High court in Prague with minor changes.
  • An enforcement action based on this judgement has been lodged by the fraud victim in New York, targeting assets frozen by US authorities.
  • The defendant in the case is a company owned beneficially by Kozeny's mother, Jitka Chvatik.
  • Assets of the company have been refrozen by the court after the company lost an appeal in 2014.
  • The case is still pending. As of January 2019, Kozeny is still internationally wanted by the Czech and US criminal justice.
  • He is effectively confined to The Bahamas, holding his Irish passport.

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