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Asil Nadir remanded by Old Bailey
11:31am Friday 3rd September 2010
Fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir has stood in an Old Bailey dock - 17 years after he fled Britain.
Nadir was remanded on conditional bail to another hearing on October 15. His trial date was provisionally set at October, next year.
The court was told that the 66 charges against him alleging theft of £34 million from his Polly Peck empire, may be reduced to 15 counts.
Prosecutors will now try to trace the original 183 witnesses who had been due to give evidence at the trial he flew out of Britain to avoid.
Nadir, 69, was granted bail on July 30 on condition he return to the UK from the Turkish republic of Northern Cyprus which had no extradition agreement with Britain.
He flew back to England last week and is renting a house in Mayfair with his 26-year-old wife Nur.
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