Krejcir: Business As Usual

by Angelique Serrao

A powerful Czech multimillionaire, Radovan Krejcir fled his home country shortly after his arrest in 2005 on charges of fraud. He arrived on South Africa’s shores in 2007, travelling under a fake name with a false passport, and avoiding extradition through pay offs. Krejcir fast began to make a name for himself within South Africa’s underworld, but it was the murder of Teazer’s boss Lolly Jackson in 2010 that brought his name to public attention. After three years and ten more deaths, Krejcir was finally arrested on charges of kidnapping and attempted murder. Yet it seems that even a jail cell is not enough to subdue the criminal kingpin: it is just business as usual. In KREJCIR, Angelique Serrao reveals why we have not yet heard the last of the worst crime boss South Africa has ever seen.

374 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2016

Reviews

[Lynn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow...he really is a monster. When I look at his pic on the front cover I almost get a sense of looking at Zuma too. How do these tyrants become the men they do? I'm so glad someone put all the stories of Krejcir's reign of terror together in a book as you wouldn't believe it otherwise. Almost too much to take in. Good read. And to think it all happened here on the good 'ole East Rand!

[Sarah Key · Rating 4 out of 5]

The best thing about having finished 'Krejcir - Business as Usual' is that I no longer have to have the antagonist's smug face following me around the house and sleeping beside me on the bedside table!

I live in Johannesburg and I make an effort to be aware of what goes on around me, as uncomfortable as this is. What a shocker, however, to learn the intimate details of thug life in Jozy through Angelique Serrao's meticulously researched expose. How difficult it is to face the extent of corruption and acknowledge just how fertile our soil is for violence and bribery.

Kerjcir and his associates, many criminals from Europe who fled facing justice in their own countries, are a conscienceless bunch. Presiding over his fifedom of Bedfordview, Krejcir believed he was untouchable and honestly the story unfolds like that of Mafia boss, John Gotti, known as the Teflon Don because charges just didn't stick. Indeed, in SA the truth is often more bizarre than fiction.

I salute journalists like Serrao in their tireless efforts to get the whole story out. It takes tenacity and guts. The fact that we allow into our country criminal psychopathic scum who murder, steal and corrupt our society from elite police task teams down leaves one feeling dry mouthed.

[Marco Gagiano · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fascinating insight into a dodgy international gangster and his nemesis, a vigilante detective called Paul O' Sullivan, while tying up a lot of loose ends of the South African/Johannesburg organised crime world and its links to corrupt policemen. One can almost read it as a sequel to Mariann Thamm's "To Catch a Cop".

The book contains lots of facts that tie back to newspaper reports and court documents, but it is sadly not very well written. The writing style improves in latter chapters but it is a bit unecessarily gory in places and contains too much presumptious armchair psychology around the main characters. Still a good read though and a must-read for South Africans.

[Marize De Klerk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Briliant. Lots of info and names but brilliantly written

[Vicky Jennings · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a fascinating man. This has kindled my interest in South African crime, because just this past weekend I was reading some newspaper reports about it. Someone argues that there are more people dying there than in any other country not at war. That's devastating if its true. This book suggests that there are reasons why that is happening. The law courts and the police are just not coping. Thjis is amazing information. Scary. Just like the inner cities of the US a couple of decades ago. I hope it all comes right in that poor country.

[Jeremiah Dube · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was very scary. These thugs are al around us. It is a well-researched book and very interesting but hard to read, because of the depressing subject mater. It is depressing that such evil men exist in the world. Too many of them are active in South Africa.

[Geoffrey Abrams · Rating 4 out of 5]

One word, 'engaging!'