Anti-Roma protest leader on fraud charge, again

A leader of local anti-Roma protests in the north of the Czech Republic has been charged with fraud and could face three years in jail

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Chris Johnstone | 22.09.2011

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Lukáš Kohout appears in many guises but is once again being pursued for fraud

Lukáš Kohout hit the headlines in 2002 when he caught posing as an asistant to former Social Democrat (ČSSD) foreign minister and then Chairman of the UN general assembly, Jan Kavan. Before the fraud was revealed, he had clocked up free travel all around the world at taxpayers’ expense. Now as the leader of anti-Roma demonstrations in his home town, Kohout is due to appear in court again for fraud.

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