{"id":248694,"date":"2006-01-31T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T17:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/01\/extradition-hearing-delayed"},"modified":"2006-01-31T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T17:39:07","slug":"extradition-hearing-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/01\/extradition-hearing-delayed","title":{"rendered":"Extradition Hearing Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magistrate Carolita Bethel yesterday put off the extradition hearing of Czech-born financier Viktor Kozeny to today after the prosecutor, Francis Cumberbatch, failed to show up due to a reported emergency.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. authorities believe that Kozeny is the mastermind behind a multimillion-dollar scheme to control the state-owned oil company in Azerbaijan in 1998 for a group of U.S. investors.<\/p>\n<p>Kozeny and two others were charged with conspiracy to violate the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which makes it a crime to offer to pay, or to pay foreign government officials in order to obtain or retain business.<\/p>\n<p><small>By: Stephen Gay, The Bahama Journal<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutor Francis Cumberbatch failed to show up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}