That is the second an American fugitive, who faked his personal dying and fled to the UK to evade a rape cost, was arrested at his Glasgow residence sporting an oxygen masks, burgundy coloured pajamas and a velvet throw over his head.
Nicholas Alahverdian, 34, was nonetheless connected to an oxygen tank when Scottish police rolled him out of his Glasgow residence in a wheelchair final Thursday.
He was arrested after skipping a scheduled extradition listening to and was transported by way of ambulance to an Edinburgh courthouse.
Since orchestrating his personal dying, Alahverdian has been having fun with a brand new life in Scotland, the place he reportedly offered himself as an eccentric Panama hat-wearing college professor from Bristol.
He reportedly launched himself to neighbors as ‘Arthur Knight’ – an affable ‘educational’ with a penchant for a three-piece swimsuit with a pocket sq. and an higher class British accent. He was an everyday at native bars, the place he can be seen ingesting costly drams of single-malt whisky and bemoaning Brexit, in keeping with The Times.
However in his earlier life, Alahverdian is a convicted intercourse pest accused by quite a few individuals of fraud, sexually deviant habits, abuse, and extortion. Twice married to American wives, each ladies filed restraining orders in opposition to him.
Throughout his most up-to-date arrest, he draped a velvet blanket over his face and held his head low as Scottish officers wheeled him to a ready ambulance. He appeared earlier than a choose final Friday was ordered jailed till his subsequent look over flight threat issues.
Elusive conman Nicholas Alahverdian was transported from his Glasgow flat final week by way of ambulance to a court docket listening to in Edinburgh. He was seen in a wheelchair sporting an oxygen masks, pajamas, and socks
Since fleeing to Scotland, Alahverdian tried to cover his true id by pretending to be an eccentric Panama hat-wearing college professor from Bristol, neighbors have claimed
Alahverdian, 34, faked his personal dying in 2020 and fled the US to evade a rape cost in Utah
For almost two years, Alahverdian lived quietly overseas after feigning terminal most cancers and faking his personal dying. In his self-penned obituary, he claimed his ashes had been scattered at sea following his February 29, 2020, ‘dying’.
However his cowl was blown after he was taken to hospital with a life-threatening case of Covid and positioned on a ventilator final yr. He was arrested December 13 by Interpol, which used tattoo scars to find his true id.
He was launched on bail on December 23 beneath the understanding he wanted extra remedy, however the subsequent day admitted himself from the hospital, Scottish prosecutors advised court docket.
ProsecutorJennifer Johnston mentioned throughout final Friday’s listening to that Alahverdian made a number of makes an attempt to go away QEUH with oxygen canisters final month. On one event he tried to rent a non-public ambulance, and provided to pay about $135US to a taxi driver to take him West Finish Park Avenue residence.
DailyMail.com just lately detailed how he, whereas dwelling in the UK beneath his assumed id, swindled a Canadian TV star in 2020.
Canadian meals author and TV star Nafsika Antypas, 44, advised DailyMail.com that shortly earlier than his ‘dying,’ Alahverdian moved overseas beneath the identify Arthur Brown and started scamming her out of about $30,000US ($40,000CAD), all whereas his mates mourned his purported passing.
Antypas – a plant-based meals advocate along with her personal TV present who lives in Montreal – just about employed Brown as a contract public relations supervisor to assist develop her eponymous model, believing he was a world enterprise lawyer with expertise working in tv.
‘I really feel actually silly,’ she advised DailyMail.com this week. ‘I knew one thing was off about him.’
She mentioned she believed him to be dwelling in Dublin, Eire, on the time of their on-line introduction together with his purported spouse, Miranda Knight. Once they spoke on the telephone, she mentioned he had a British accent and pronounced stutter.
Canadian meals persona Nafsika Antypas, 44, tells DailyMail.com that after his dying, Alahverdian moved overseas beneath the identify Arthur Brown and scammed her out of about $30,000US ($40,000CAD)
Moderately than ship on what he promised, Antypas found – after paying him $7,500US ($10,000CAD) a month for 4 months – that the person she knew as Arthur Brown was a phony who produced no outcomes. When she demanded to see his work, she mentioned he threatened to extort her until she gave him an extra $55,000US ($70,000CAD).
Antypas employed Nicholas Alahverdian (pictured) – who on the time was utilizing the alias Nicholas Brown – to assist construct her vegan meals model, she says
Texts, images and emails Antypas shared with the DailyMail.com present how Alahverdian fabricated a red-headed spouse, two household canines and a myriad of diseases – even sending her images of his ‘spouse’ within the hospital at one level – with a purpose to keep away from doing the work he promised her, primarily based on credentials he by no means had within the first place.
Antypas says she ignored gnawing suspicions and – as he despatched her pleasant texts and presents for her birthday – lowered her guard.
However each time Antypas requested Alahverdian to supply his work, she mentioned he all of the sudden fell ailing with bronchial asthma, migraines or another ailment. On different events, he blamed his sick ‘spouse’ or hospitalized canine for failing to ship.
On one event, she says he despatched footage of his so-called spouse, who he mentioned was a British nationwide, mendacity unconscious in a hospital mattress, as proof she was recovering from appendicitis.
Throughout one other time, he claimed he was taking his purported spouse on a two-week cruise for his or her ‘second honeymoon’ and was unavailable to work.
‘I really feel actually silly,’ Antypas advised DailyMail.com this week. ‘I knew one thing was off about him’
Alahverdian claimed to be married to a British lady named Miranda Knight and texted a photograph of this red-headed lady to Antypas. A personal investigator couldn’t discover anybody by that identify
Antypas says he despatched footage of his so-called spouse, who he mentioned was a British nationwide, mendacity unconscious in a hospital mattress, as proof she was recovering from appendicitis
In April 2020, she despatched him a textual content advising him that she was chopping off cost till he may show the $30,000 she had already given him was yielding outcomes.
‘Hello Nicholas, hope you are feeling higher,’ she mentioned. ‘I spoke to my accountant right now and we agree that I can not preserve paying you your price till you present me your work.
‘By now you had been imagined to have raised enough funds for the television present and different merchandise we had mentioned. I perceive issues cannot take off in a single day however I imagine 4 months was sufficient time to see SUFFICIENT outcomes.’
Alahverdian’s response was full of rage and, consistent with his alias, even integrated English spelling into his response, in keeping with the textual content she shared with DailyMail.com
‘I will wait so that you can wake so we will speak about this earlier than I reply to your nonsensical remark,’ he replied.
‘Completely appalled by your feedback however I offers you the good thing about the doubt and we will converse when it’s morning there. However I’m completely appalled.
‘I’d be completely happy to “present you my work,” he continued.
‘I’m shocked, appalled, and abhorred that you’d insinuate that I’ve executed nothing for you. We’re on the point of huge on-line gross sales with a correlating PR marketing campaign on two continents and right here you’re patronizing me and telling me I’ve executed nothing.’
‘Textual content me once you’re awake and we’ll discuss,’ he added.
Alahverdian additionally claimed to have two canines, which he would use an excuse when she requested him to indicate his work, blaming a hospitalized canine for failing to ship
Antypas despatched Alahverdian a textual content in late April, inform him she wanted to see his work with a purpose to preserve paying him
He shot again at her, accusing her of being ‘patronizing’ and claiming to be on the ‘brink of huge gross sales’
The following day, he texted her once more and threatened to set the libelous websites stay if she did not reply inside ‘one hour and 17 minutes’ to settlement negotiations, textual content messages present.
He later set the libelous web sites claiming she was a fraud stay, leaving her to rent a agency to revive her on-line status as she acquired a letter claiming to be from Alahverdian’s lawyer, once more demanding $73,000 to fill out a yr’s wage.
Her legal professionals retorted that he truly owed her cash to reimburse her for the cash she spent restoring her status. They by no means acquired a response from Alahverdian or his alleged authorized group, Antypas mentioned.
In July of that yr, she employed a non-public investigator to dig up data on Alahverdian however – armed with the improper identify and inaccurate background data – the investigator turned up nothing.
He was not capable of finding any proof of Alahverdian’s purported spouse, both.
Antypas mentioned she lastly found the reality about Alahverdian’s previous after receiving a name from a reporter following his arrest final December in Scotland.
Antypas mentioned she suspected from the start one thing was amiss with Alahverdian however, having been scammed earlier than, thought she was simply being paranoid.
He advised her that if she didn’t pay him $70,000 inside ‘one hour and 17 minutes,’ he would set the web site stay and share the fraud images
When Antypas ended her enterprise relationship with Alahverdian, he allegedly threatened to create a pretend web site about her, utilizing website positioning tips to make it the highest Google him
A letter from ‘Jonathan Franklin’, claiming to be Alahverdian’s lawyer, demanded $73,000 from Antypas. It mentioned she owed him cash to cowl the rest of his yearly wage, although he was employed as a freelancer
Prosecutors in Utah are planning to strive Alahverdian associated to the alleged 2008 rape of his ex-girlfriend. He was beforehand convicted for an unrelated sexual assault throughout the identical yr at Sinclair Neighborhood School in Ohio.
He is suspected of committing a string of different assaults in each states, in addition to Rhode Island, the place not less than 4 ladies filed police experiences in opposition to him associated to alleged incidents in 2010 and 2011.
Since his pretend dying was uncovered, extra tales about his allegedly aggressive habits towards ladies have emerged.
He faked his personal dying in 2000 and fled the nation to evade intercourse and fraud allegations, and went so far as to pen and publish his personal obituary
One lady advised Pawtucket police that Alahverdian turned ‘enraged’ after she rebuked his advances after a dinner date, in keeping with police experiences obtained by the Providence Journal.
Whereas they had been convening in his residence later that night time, he turned ‘enraged’ after she rejected his advances and demanded to be compensated for the meal they shared.
After taking away her telephone, he drove her to a close-by ATM and instructed her to withdraw $200. She acquiesced as a result of ‘she felt she had no selection however to provide him the cash, in worry of additional violence,’ the report mentioned.
The night time received stranger for the girl when Alahverdian ordered her to signal an settlement – whereas he videotaped – that mentioned ‘she couldn’t pursue authorized motion and that the cash she gave him was for remedy for him as a consequence of her violent actions and her sexual dependancy.’
One accuser advised police that Alahverdian picked up the dinner tab throughout a date, however demanded to be repaid $200 after she refused his advances
This map reveals the path of havoc and alleged felony habits carried out by Nicholas Alahverdian throughout the US
One other accuser advised police in July 2010 that Alahverdian lured her to his residence beneath the guise that she’d be visiting his artwork studio. As an alternative, she advised cops, he took away her telephone and pressed her for intercourse.
When she refused his advances, he mentioned ‘if she left, he would kill himself by stabbing himself within the chest with a knife,’ the Journal reported. Alahverdian was taken to hospital for a psychiatric analysis.
Police returned to his residence that November on a tip, and mentioned they encountered an ‘extraordinarily upset’ lady with accidents to each eyes.
The lady advised cops that Alahverdian turned offended after their dinner company’ baby started crying earlier that night time, which led to a violent argument.
Alahverdian ‘grabbed her and knocked her to the bottom and held her down’ and ‘slapped her on the facial space,’ the outlet reported.
He resisted arrest, prompting police to bodily carry him out of the residence and into the cruiser, the place he repeatedly smashed his head in opposition to the metallic bars whereas screaming ‘very loudly’.
He was pepper sprayed by the arresting officers in an effort to get him to cease self-harming.
An arrest warrant was issued for Alahverdian in 2011 for violating a restraining order obtained by his then-wife.
DailyMail.com has requested copies of the arrest experiences from the Pawtucket police. It isn’t clear whether or not Alahverdian was convicted or served jail time for the allegations.
Final week, a Scottish court docket heard that since his arrest acquired media consideration, Police Scotland had acquired ‘a grievance of a home nature to police in Essex in 2017’ in relation to Rossi.
Alahverdian was so crafty that, as a younger teenage, he almost satisfied a state consultant to undertake him.
Former state consultant Brian Coogan, 51, beforehand advised DailyMail.com that he met and was charmed by Alahverdian in 2000, whereas he was working as a politician and Alahverdian was volunteering as an errand boy on the state home.
Coogan advised DailyMail.com that he was initially enamored by the troubled teen – who claimed to be sexually and bodily victimized in foster care – and moved to provide him a everlasting household after Alahverdian ‘begged me to undertake him’ shortly after they met.
On the day he was in court docket to start adoption proceedings, Coogan mentioned he overheard Alahverdian threatening a social employee, saying: ‘I will inform them you abused me, that you just hit me.’
A choose later talked Coogan and his spouse out of it, warning that he was ‘manipulative’ and susceptible to stealing peoples’ identities.
The cost Alahverdian is awaiting extradition for pertains to the rape of a lady in Orem, Utah who he befriended on MySpace in 2008 and later attacked, Utah County District Legal professional David Leavitt advised DailyMail.com.
Source: Each day Mail