Czech media mogul put behind bars

Vladimír Železný, a Czech media owner who recently entered the Slovak market, spent the night of November 13-14 in jail after being questioned for six hours by police over 900 million Czech crowns he is suspected of defrauding from the creditors of his CME company.

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