Violating Sanctions Against Yugoslavia...

[Ivo Skoric]

Bobby Fischer, former world chess champion, was arrested in Japan for 
trying to leave the country without a valid passport. The US passport 
he holds, was not renewed perhaps because there is an arrest warrant 
against Fischer in the US - he faces charges for violating economic 
sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by playing an exhibition 
match there in 1992 (re-match against Boris Spassky, where BF won 
$3M). He will probably be extradited to US. It will be interesting to 
see how this will play here. It was interesting to see how he got 
lured out of his 20 years isolation by an enterprneurial Serbian 
banker, too.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/17/international/asia/17fisc.html?th
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