Return of the pirate

Headline: Return of the pirateSource: EuromoneyDate: September 2000Author: Ben Beasley-Murray more on Central & Eastern Europe more on Czech Republic As bankers, policymakers and pundits packed their bags in readiness to travel to Prague for the IMF/World Bank conference, the Czech Republic’s most (in)famous Financier was making no such arrangements. Viktor Kozeny, aka the pirate […]

Headline: Return of the pirate
Source: Euromoney
Date: September 2000
Author: Ben Beasley-Murray

more on Central & Eastern Europe
more on Czech Republic

As bankers, policymakers and pundits packed their bags in readiness to travel to Prague for the IMF/World Bank conference, the Czech Republic’s most (in)famous Financier was making no such arrangements. Viktor Kozeny, aka the pirate of Prague or the bouncing Czech, will be 5,000 miles away, sitting out proceedings in the comfort of his Bahamas home.

       
Kozeny: prodigal’s return?

For those who may have forgotten Kozeny, he is best known as the man responsible for both the success and discrediting of the privatization programme undertaken by Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s.









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