Monday, August 1, 2005
Volume:
21
Issue:
8
342
Abstract:
A Bahamian media source reported that Lyford Cay resident Viktor Kozeny, who has been charged with 17 counts of fraud-related charges in the United States, faces the choice of surrendering to U.S. authorities or facing extradition.
On October 2, 2003, Robert Morgenthal, the New York City district attorney, charged Kozeny with grand larceny. He is alleged to have defrauded clients of Omega Advisors Inc, a New York hedge-fund company, of $182 million in dealings with Azerbaijan in 1998. If convicted, he could faced a sentence of 25 years in the U.S.