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The Pirate of Prague

Apple TV+ / Blanchard House

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.2 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After 18 months in a notorious Bahamian prison, Viktor walks free. But he’s still being hunted. The Czechs put him on trial in absentia. Trapped in the Bahamas, Viktor is shunned. For so long a self-promoting, globetrotting high roller, he seems to have disappeared from public view. Where is he? Where’s all that money? And will he ever face justice?

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0:00.0	All rise.
0:06.8	July 10th, 2009.
0:10.3	Marshal, please bring in the jurors.
0:13.4	A Manhattan courtroom.
0:16.6	The jury has been out for three days.
0:20.3	Three days of deliberations.
0:23.4	Detailed deliberations.
0:26.5	In order to convict, the jury's decision must be unanimous.
0:34.3	Mr. Foreman, you have agreed upon a verdict?
0:39.5	Yes, we have.
0:41.9	Shirish Shindlin has one of the best seats in the house.
0:45.7	There are some cases that just stay with you,
0:48.3	no matter what happens in the rest of your career.
0:50.4	So I would say this is one of those cases.
0:57.1	In fact, she has the best seat in the house,
1:06.1	because she's the judge. The testimony was powerful. The trial has lasted six weeks,
1:17.0	six long weeks of evidence. Evidence about that grand plan to scoop up the Azeri oil industry and make a lot of money.
1:22.2	But the deal went bad. It got real ugly.
1:28.7	And the defendant is accused of bribery, a very serious crime.
1:32.8	He's put up a strong defense.
1:36.1	He did have the best lawyers that money could buy.
1:40.2	But the moment of truth has arrived.
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