Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen has offered to pay fines for six tourists who were arrested for wearing the character's iconic 'mankini'.

The group of Czech tourists posed for pictures in Kazakhstan wearing nothing but mankinis, made famous by Mr Baron Cohen's character Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional Kazakh TV presenter who travels to the US to make a documentary.

In the 2006 film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan the eponymous character Borat walks around in a lime green mankini, a one-piece swimsuit for men.