Stock Photo - ***DECEMBER 4, 2018 FILE PHOTO*** Czech entrepreneur Antonio Kolacek, who was convicted of vast fraud in connection with the MUS coal mining firm in Switzerland, will not comply with the Swiss call to turn up in prison on August 19, as he wants to defend himself in Czechia in the MUS privatisation case, he told media today, on Monday, August 12, 2019. On the recommendation of his defence lawyers, he will not comply with the Swiss call and he has informed the Swiss authorities about this, he said. ""I need to fully defend myself before the Czech court and clean my name. I cannot disappoint my friends who trust me by simply going to prison and terminating the whole MUS story without an appropriate enquiry and clarification,"" Kolacek, 60, said. He said he plans to stay in the Czech Republic and not to travel.In Switzerland, he was sentenced in 2013 to 52 months in prison for fraud, money laundering and breach of trust. He pleads not guilty. A Swiss court later dismissed his request for a postponement of his prison sentence, a decision he wants to appeal at the court in Lausanne. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)