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.
Good to its word, “the fund with the American name” yielded more than 10 times up-side for its shareholders. |