Thread: Ill - Downstate man accused of theft flees country

Cops: Downstate man accused of theft flees country
Associated PressPublished: 6/30/2008 8:25 AM


A Peoria Heights restaurant owner facing bad check charges has left the country while out on bail, and authorities are not sure just how it happened.

And the alleged victims who say the man owes them thousands of dollars are wondering if they'll ever see their money.

Authorities say 27-year-old Kranthi Akula fled the country Thursday, a day after posting 10 percent of his $50,000 bond. He faces four criminal charges of deceptive practice for allegedly writing more than $36,000 in bad checks.

The Peoria County judge who set the bond ordered Akula to surrender his passport, but Akula failed to do so, and instead boarded a plane to Mumbai, India.


http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=213751&src=109

Guess I need to learn the new rules......do whatever you want and then just run.......by foot and any other means.....just run.....if you get away, your home free. Goes against everything I've ever known. And to think, all this time I spent learning to be an honest law abiding person.....I could have been training for running or using my artistic talents to make phony ID's. Such a waste.

And they say crime doesn't pay! What's the chances this guy will be extradited back to this country to face justice and his accusers? Good luck...

Another case in which the United States was used as a doormat, and when they were done wiping, they simply fled!