An American fugitive who faked his personal dying and assumed a brand new identification overseas to evade a US rape cost was arrested once more – this time carrying an oxygen masks and pajamas.
A information photographer captured the second Nicholas Alahverdian, 34, was escorted from his Glasgow flat in a wheelchair final Thursday and transported by way of ambulance to an Edinburgh courthouse after he skipped a scheduled extradition listening to.
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 ‘tutorial’ with a penchant for a three-piece go well with with a pocket sq. and an higher class British accent. He was an everyday at native bars, the place he can be seen consuming costly drams of single-malt whisky and bemoaning Brexit, in accordance with The Occasions.
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 girls 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 decide final Friday was ordered jailed till his subsequent look over flight danger considerations.
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 carrying an oxygen masks, pajamas, and socks
Since fleeing to Scotland, Alahverdian tried to cover his true identification 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 practically 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 have 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 12 months. He was arrested December 13 by Interpol, which used tattoo scars to find his true identification.
He was launched on bail on December 23 below the understanding he wanted extra therapy, however the subsequent day admitted himself from the hospital, Scottish prosecutors advised court docket.
ProsecutorJennifer Johnston stated 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 house.
DailyMail.com just lately detailed how he, whereas dwelling in the UK below his assumed identification, 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 below the title Arthur Brown and commenced 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 – nearly 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 stated 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 stated he had a British accent and pronounced stutter.
Canadian meals persona Nafsika Antypas, 44, tells DailyMail.com that after his dying, Alahverdian moved overseas below the title Arthur Brown and scammed her out of about $30,000US ($40,000CAD)
Quite 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 stated he threatened to extort her except 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 sicknesses – even sending her images of his ‘spouse’ within the hospital at one level – with the intention 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 provide his work, she stated he out of the blue 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 photos of his so-called spouse, who he stated 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 title
Antypas says he despatched photos of his so-called spouse, who he stated 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 reducing off fee till he might show the $30,000 she had already given him was yielding outcomes.
‘Hello Nicholas, hope you are feeling higher,’ she stated. ‘I spoke to my accountant right now and we agree that I can not preserve paying you your charge till you present me your work.
‘By now you have been purported 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 included English spelling into his response, in accordance 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 gives you the advantage of the doubt and we will converse when it’s morning there. However I’m completely appalled.
‘I might be blissful to “present you my work,” he continued.
‘I’m shocked, appalled, and abhorred that you’d insinuate that I’ve accomplished nothing for you. We’re getting ready to 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 accomplished nothing.’
‘Textual content me if you’re awake and we’ll speak,’ 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 the intention 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 subsequent day, he texted her once more and threatened to set the libelous websites dwell 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 dwell, leaving her to rent a agency to revive her on-line repute as she acquired a letter claiming to be from Alahverdian’s lawyer, once more demanding $73,000 to fill out a 12 months’s wage.
Her legal professionals retorted that he truly owed her cash to reimburse her for the cash she spent restoring her repute. They by no means acquired a response from Alahverdian or his alleged authorized group, Antypas stated.
In July of that 12 months, she employed a non-public investigator to dig up info on Alahverdian however – armed with the improper title and inaccurate background info – the investigator turned up nothing.
He was not capable of finding any proof of Alahverdian’s purported spouse, both.
Antypas stated she lastly found the reality about Alahverdian’s previous after receiving a name from a reporter following his arrest final December in Scotland.
Antypas stated 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 dwell and share the fraud images
When Antypas ended her enterprise relationship with Alahverdian, he allegedly threatened to create a faux web site about her, utilizing web optimization 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 stated 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 attempt Alahverdian associated to the alleged 2008 rape of his ex-girlfriend. He was beforehand convicted for an unrelated sexual assault throughout the identical 12 months at Sinclair Group Faculty in Ohio.
He is suspected of committing a string of different assaults in each states, in addition to Rhode Island, the place at the very least 4 girls filed police reviews in opposition to him associated to alleged incidents in 2010 and 2011.
Since his faux dying was uncovered, extra tales about his allegedly aggressive habits towards girls 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 grew to become ‘enraged’ after she rebuked his advances after a dinner date, in accordance with police reviews obtained by the Windfall Journal.
Whereas they have been convening in his house later that evening, he grew to become ‘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 alternative however to offer him the cash, in concern of additional violence,’ the report stated.
The evening obtained stranger for the lady when Alahverdian ordered her to signal an settlement – whereas he videotaped – that stated ‘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 habit.’
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 prison habits carried out by Nicholas Alahverdian throughout the US
One other accuser advised police in July 2010 that Alahverdian lured her to his house below 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 stated ‘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 house that November on a tip, and stated they encountered an ‘extraordinarily upset’ lady with accidents to each eyes.
The lady advised cops that Alahverdian grew to become indignant after their dinner friends’ youngster started crying earlier that evening, 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 house 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 reviews 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 practically 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 offer 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 stated he overheard Alahverdian threatening a social employee, saying: ‘I will inform them you abused me, that you just hit me.’
A decide later talked Coogan and his spouse out of it, warning that he was ‘manipulative’ and liable to stealing peoples’ identities.
The cost Alahverdian is awaiting extradition for pertains to the rape of a girl in Orem, Utah who he befriended on MySpace in 2008 and later attacked, Utah County District Legal professional David Leavitt advised DailyMail.com.
The numerous faces and aliases of American conman Nicholas Alahverdian
Nicholas Alahverdian, 34, has gained worldwide notoriety after it was revealed that he faked his personal dying in 2020 to evade intercourse and fraud expenses. He then assumed a false identification in Scotland, however his cowl was blown after he was hospitalized with a life-threatening case of Covid and he was arrested by Interpol in December, solely to be launched on bail weeks later.
He was once more arrested in January for lacking an extradition listening to as new allegations about his disturbing private life got here to mild, together with that he as soon as reportedly flew right into a rage over a crying youngster and on one other event pressured a girl to repay him for dinner after she refused his sexual advances.
He used the title Arthur Knight when detained by Scotland police however it’s believed he went below at the very least eight completely different aliases since happening the run, together with:
- Nicholas Rossi
- Nicholas Alahverdian
- Nicholas Alahverdian Rossi
- Nicholas Edward Rossi
- Nicholas Alahverdian-Rossi
- Nick Alan
- Nicholas Brown
- Arthur Brown
- Arthur Knight
Alahverdian was described as each charming and vindictive by a former acquaintance. He’s pictured on this undated picture with former vice chairman Mike Pence
Alahverdian traveled in prestigious circles. He is pictured with East Windfall Mayor Bob da Silva on this undated picture
Alahverdian is a registered intercourse offender. He was convicted of two sex-related crimes in 2008. His mugshot from the intercourse offenders’ registry is pictured
Alahverdian pictured in 2011
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