Five Czechs found in Lebanon on way home: minister

2016-02-05 03:38:54

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said on Thursday Five Czechs found in Lebanon following their suspected kidnapping last July are in a Czech government plane on their way to Prague.

PRAGUE: Five Czechs found in Lebanon following their suspected kidnapping last July are in a Czech government plane on their way to Prague Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said on Thursday.

The five went missing when their abandoned vehicle was found near Kefraya in eastern Lebanon. They reappeared on Monday and were being held by Lebanese authorities.

The disappearance of the five treated by Czech authorities as a suspected kidnapping has been connected - by media in both countries and a security source - with the detention since 2014 of a Lebanese national in the Czech Republic.

A Czech court has ruled that three men including Lebanese citizen Ali Fayad charged in the United States with an attempt to sell ground-to-air missiles cocaine trafficking and other crimes can be extradited to the United States.

A final ruling on the extradition is up to the Czech justice minister. The ministry said on Thursday no decision had been made nor was one expected in the coming days reiterating its position over the past week.

(Reporting by Jason Hovet and Jan Lopatka and Lisa Barrington in Beirut Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)

Reuters

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