New Delhi, June 6 -- The street was quiet early Wednesday when Tony Bargig, 54, was found dead on Seifertova Street in Prague's third district. Czech police confirmed that a foreign national born in 1971 had been killed by another person and that a murder investigation was underway. What they did not confirm - could not yet confirm - was whether the decade-long legal unraveling that had followed Bargig from Israel to Central Europe had anything to do with his death.

the same city where Israeli underworld figure Felix Abutbul was assassinated in 2002 - landed in Israeli media with the force of a confirmation, not a surprise.

Czech authorities said they had identified no suspects and released no details about the circumstances of the kill...