A Rhode Island conman who faked his personal dying and moved to the UK to evade American police struck once more throughout the pond, DailyMail.com has discovered – this time swindling a Canadian TV star out of $30,000 US {dollars} in 2020.
Nicholas Alahverdian, 34 – who has assumed a number of aliases – lived quietly overseas for practically two years after feigning terminal most cancers and faking his personal dying February 29, 2020. In a self-written obituary, he claimed his ashes have been scattered at sea.
Canadian meals author and TV star Nafsika Antypas, 44, tells DailyMail.com that shortly earlier than his ‘dying,’ Alahverdian moved overseas beneath the identify Arthur Brown and commenced scamming her out of about $30,000US ($40,000CAD), all whereas his mates mourned his purported passing.
She says Alahverdian additionally claimed to have married a British lady named Miranda Knight. He’s at the moment locked up in a Scottish jail ready extradition to the U.S. to face a rape cost in Utah.
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 global enterprise lawyer with expertise working in tv.
‘I really feel actually silly,’ she instructed DailyMail.com this week. ‘I knew one thing was off about him.’
The 44-year-old stated she believed him to be dwelling in Dublin, Eire, on the time of their on-line introduction together with his purported spouse. After they spoke on the telephone, she stated he had a British accent and pronounced stutter.
Slightly 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 a further $55,000US ($70,000CAD).
Texts, pictures 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 pictures of his ‘spouse’ within the hospital at one level – with a purpose to keep away from doing the work he promised her, based mostly on credentials he by no means had within the first place.
When she realized she was being conned and employed a lawyer, Alahverdian fired again together with his personal authorized threats claiming she was the one damaging him. After demanding she reply inside ‘one hour and 17 minutes’ to settlement negotiations, he then smeared her hard-earned status in a brutal revenge marketing campaign branding her a ‘fraud.’ When she later employed a non-public investigator to look into Arthur Brown, she realized there was no such man, when even the PI might discover no hint of him or his so-called spouse.
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)
Antypas employed Nicholas Alahverdian (pictured) – who on the time was utilizing the alias Nicholas Brown – to assist construct her vegan meals model, she says
Alahverdian created fictitious social media accounts beneath her identify and a faux web site utilizing search engine optimization techniques to make sure destructive articles can be the highest hits on Google.
Antypas employed Alahverdian in January 2020 as a public relations supervisor and gross sales generator after discovering him on Upwork, a website that connects companies with freelancers.
She says he quickly insisted on shifting from Eire to Bristol, England, so he might develop her enterprise there, and he or she reluctantly agreed. He sprinkled in particulars of his private life of their textual content exchanges, sending photos he claimed to be of his canines, and sharing particulars a few lady he claimed to be his redheaded spouse, she recalled.
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 all of a sudden fell in poor health 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 instructed DailyMail.com this week. ‘I knew one thing was off about him’
Antypas, 44, is a Canadian meals author and TV star. Pictured: A January 2021 submit to her Instagram
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 at the moment and we agree that I can not hold paying you your price till you present me your work.
‘By now you have been speculated to have raised ample funds for the television present and different merchandise we had mentioned. I perceive issues cannot take off in a single day however I consider 4 months was sufficient time to see SUFFICIENT outcomes.’
Alahverdian’s response was full of rage and, in line with his alias, even included 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 are able to discuss this earlier than I reply to your nonsensical remark,’ he replied.
‘Completely appalled by your feedback however I offers you the advantage of the doubt and we are able to converse when it’s morning there. However I’m completely appalled.
‘I might be glad to “present you my work,” he continued.
‘I’m shocked, appalled, and abhorred that you’d insinuate that I’ve completed 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 completed nothing.’
‘Textual content me whenever you’re awake and we are going to discuss,’ he added.
Alahverdian claimed to be married to a British lady named Miranda and texted a photograph of this red-headed lady to Antypas
Alahverdian additionally claimed to have two canines, which he would use an excuse when she requested him to point out 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 hold 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 reside 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 reside, leaving her to rent a agency to revive her on-line status as she obtained 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 status. They by no means obtained 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 mistaken identify 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.
He was nabbed on an Interpol discover on December 13 after being admitted to Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth College Hospital (QEUH) with coronavirus beneath the identify Arthur Knight.
Scottish prosecutors stated his tattoos helped reveal him because the American fugitive needed on fraud and intercourse costs.
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 instructed her that if she didn’t pay him $70,000 inside ‘one hour and 17 minutes,’ he would set the web site reside and share the fraud pictures
When Antypas ended her enterprise relationship with Alahverdian, he allegedly threatened to create a faux web site about her, utilizing search engine optimization methods 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, though he was employed as a freelancer
Proper now, Alahverdian is locked up in a Scottish jail ready extradition to the U.S. to face a rape cost in Utah after alleging assaulting an ex-girlfriend in 2008. 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 a minimum of 4 girls filed police studies towards him associated to alleged incidents in 2010 and 2011.
He was additionally accused of a $200,000 fraud after allegedly taking out bank cards and loans in his foster mom’s husband’s identify in Ohio.
Since his faux dying was uncovered, extra tales about his allegedly aggressive conduct towards girls have emerged.
Alahverdian, proven in a 2011 picture, is suspected of finishing up a number of intercourse assaults, and was accused of a $200,000 fraud after taking out bank cards and loans in his foster mom’s husband’s identify in Ohio, it’s alleged
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 instructed Pawtucket police that Alahverdian grew to become ‘enraged’ after she rebuked his advances after a dinner date, in keeping with police studies obtained by the Windfall Journal.
Whereas they have been convening in his condo later that night time, 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 present him the cash, in worry of additional violence,’ the report stated.
The night time bought 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 because of her violent actions and her sexual dependancy.’
One accuser instructed police that Alahverdian picked up the dinner tab throughout a date, however demanded to be repaid $200 after she refused his advances
This map exhibits the path of havoc and alleged prison conduct carried out by Nicholas Alahverdian throughout the US
One other accuser instructed police in July 2010 that Alahverdian lured her to his condo beneath the guise that she’d be visiting his artwork studio. As a substitute, she instructed 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 condo that November on a tip, and stated they encountered an ‘extraordinarily upset’ lady with accidents to each eyes.
The lady instructed cops that Alahverdian grew to become offended after their dinner company’ little one 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 condo and into the cruiser, the place he repeatedly smashed his head towards the steel 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 studies from the Pawtucket police. It is not 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 obtained media consideration, Police Scotland had obtained ‘a criticism 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 instructed 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 instructed 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 present 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 simply hit me.’
A choose later talked Coogan and his spouse out of it, warning that he was ‘manipulative’ and vulnerable 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 instructed DailyMail.com.
The various 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 costs. 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 little one and on one other event compelled a lady to repay him for dinner after she refused his sexual advances.
He used the identify Arthur Knight when detained by Scotland police however it’s believed he went beneath a minimum of eight totally 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
Alahverdian is suspected of finishing up a number of intercourse assaults, and was accused of a $200,000 fraud after taking out bank cards and loans in his foster mom’s husband’s identify in Ohio. He’s pictured in 2011
One accuser instructed police that Alahverdian picked up the dinner tab throughout a date, however demanded to be repaid $200 after she refused his advances