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Tue 07 Jul 2009Fugitive using Irish passport to avoid bribe charges in US
A CZECH-BORN fugitive is relying on Irish citizenship he received in the controversial “passports for investment” scheme in an effort to avoid charges in the US of bribing top officials in Azerbaijan, a post-Soviet state on the Caspian sea.
Viktor Kozeny, who has since 2005 successfully fought extradition to the US from his home in the Bahamas, is accused by the US authorities of paying millions of dollars in bribes in an unsuccessful effort to win control of Azerbaijan’s state oil company in 1998.
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