There have been no updates on FutureNet co-founder Roman Ziemian since his arrest in Italy.
We’ve now realized that as a result of, after arresting him, Italian authorities launched Ziemian pending extradition.
Moments after Italian authorities unlocked Ziemian’s cuffs, he in fact promptly fled the nation.
Final November Ziemian was arrested on a world arrest warrant, issued on behalf of South Korea.
Whereas FutureNet was a European Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of shoppers out of hundreds of thousands, it was left as much as South Korean authorities to construct a felony case on behalf of round 950 victims.
As reported by Gazeta on October fifth;
In October 2022, Roman Z. was detained by the Guardia di Finanza, on the request of the Korean prosecutor’s workplace.
They did it proper after the race in Bologna, wherein the person took first place as a Ferrari driver.
After interrogation, nevertheless, Roman Z. was launched, and he sank to the bottom.
Roman Z.’s lawyer confirms that his consumer is just not in Italy and his extradition to South Korea has not taken place.
Ziemian has seemingly fled again to Dubai, the place Gazeta reviews he has laundered cash into eight properties valued at $6.4 million.
Regardless of the plain flight danger (Ziemian was solely in Italy to race automobiles), and getting access to hundreds of thousands in stolen funds and “a number of passports”, Italian authorities figured Ziemian would keep put after they let him go.
It’s the identical mistake Greece made after they arrested Ziemian’s FutureNet companion in crime, Stephan Morgenstern (Europe has a knack for arresting MLM criminals after which letting them go).
Fortunately Morgenstern was re-arrested by Albania in August. Except they’ve launched him once more, Morgenstern is believed to be awaiting extradition to South Korea.
Ziemian, now a needed fugitive, stays at massive with a world arrest warrant out on him.
In additional optimistic information, Polish authorities made one FutureNet associated arrest final month (not Ziemian or Morgenstern).
Of the 20,000 victims and ~$20.6 million Polish authorities have pegged FutureNet accountable for, $4.5 million has been recovered.
Along with the South Korean warrant, as a part of the Polish investigation Ziemian and Morgenstern now even have European arrest warrants out on them.
The Polish investigation into FutureNet dates again to 2019. Up till final month it was believed to have gone nowhere.