Radovan krejcir
Radovan Krejcir's life not in danger, says Correctional Services
According to The Saturday Star, Krejcir's family believes that he will be murdered if he isn't moved out of the Leeuwkop Maximum Security prison.
Talk Radio 702 host Karima Brown grills journalist Abram Mashego about the explosive story where Radovan Krejcir says he paid the former president R2.5 million to buy his asylum papers in South Africa.
From a change in presidents to the deaths of icons and ordinary citizens making headlines for all the right and wrong reasons, South Africa has had quite an interesting year.
Radovan Krecjir's attorney Eric Mabuza says they’ve made an urgent request for him to be returned to his home country.
On Friday Eyewitness News published articles based on a telephonic interview conducted with the convicted criminal who claimed that there was a major conspiracy to keep him behind bars.
Krejcir says there's a conspiracy against him involving a top politician's son and a number of other people, including senior police officials.
Krejcir and his two co-accused, Desai Luphondo and Jan Lefu Mofokeng, as well as three others, were convicted in 2015 on charges relating to the kidnapping and torture of a man.
Jason Baya was taken into custody on Thursday, along with three others, in a sting operation carried out in Bryanston and Jukskei Park.
The man, whose name is known to Eyewitness News, was taken into custody on Thursday, along with three others, in a sting operation in Bryanston and Jukskei Park.
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The appeal court in the Czech Republic on Wednesday confirmed a jail term handed to him in absentia for plotting the murder of a customs official and stripping the assets of a state own oil company.
Nafiz Modack, Colin Booysen - who is the brother of alleged gang boss Jerome Booysen - and three others, are facing extortion charges.
Pablo Yester-Garrido lives in Sandton with his Italian girlfriend and their child he moves in the same circles as a number of prominent underworld figures.
In the neighbouring courtroom, the Sam Issa murder trial is continuing in Krejcir's absence. He's accused of arranging the hit on the Lebanese drug dealer in Bedfordview in 2013.
Communication between prison authorities and the family detail an apparent infestation of scorpions and rodents in his cell and other allegations about his conditions.
The murder trial of Lebanese drug dealer Sam Issa has been put on hold to deal with the Czech's medical condition.
Radovan Krejcir's extradition to the Czech Republic has been prevented because of other parallel criminal cases and appeals.
Judge Winston Msimeki dismissed an application brought by defence lawyers for the State to hand over all the evidence it has relating to State witness Mike Grigorov.
Mike Grigorov testified about the build-up to Issa’s murder, explaining how a white Ford Ranger was secured for use in the hit.