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Ε roubek, also known as Jan Antolik, is still in New Zealand seven years after then Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway ordered his deportation

He used a false passport, smuggled in drugs and has been in New Zealand for 22 years

He has lost an appeal to judicially review the decision, after a tribunal ruled against him

Analysis: "This will go to court. It will be tied up for years. I don't think we've heard the last of Karel Ε roubek by any measure."

That's how National MP Michael Woodhouse summed the 2018 debacle in which the drug-smuggling kickboxer was on the cusp of being deported, then granted residence and then facing deportation again - all in the space of 10 weeks.

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