D-day for the Bouncing Czech

A web of dodgy dealings has caught up with Viktor Kozeny, writes Dinah A Spritzer.

IF YOU thought the most embarrassing moment of the investment-for-passports scheme was Taoiseach Charles Haughey handing over 11 passports to Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law Khalid bin Mahfouz at a swank hotel dinner in 1990, think again.

Another investment-for-passports poster boy stands accused of cheating two countries’ investors out of millions of euro, money laundering and bribing heads of state.