A man of Rhode Island who escaped from the United States and falsified his death to avoid prosecution of rape and financial fraud was arrested after missing his court date in Scotland, said the authorities on Thursday.
The Scottish police said officers arrested Nicholas Alahverdian in the Woodlands area of ​​Glasgow after a warrant was issued by the Edinburgh Sheriff Court during the day.
The 34-year-old player, who has gone under a number of other aliases, is now due on Friday.
A police spokesman suspended the other follow-up question to the Scottish crown office, who oversees prosecution, but a spokesman for the agency refused to comment.
A spokesman for the Edinburgh Sheriff Court also did not return an email that was looking for comments.
Utah’s lawyer office David Leavitt, who has accused Alahverdian in connection with the rape of 2008 in Utah, refusing to comment on the extradition process.
“We again express our gratitude to the law enforcement agency for their diligent efforts in this case to bring this individual to justice,” he said in a statement.
It is not clear whether the Alahverdian has a lawyer; Comments that are looking for emails are sent to the “Alahverdian family office,” which has sent a notification by 2020 on funeral services and warnings in Rhode Island.
Alahverdian was found in a hospital in Glasgow last month under the name of Arthur Knight’s assumption after becoming severe illness with Covid-19.
He was given a guarantee last week when he waited for extradition to M.S., WPRI-TV reported.
The Leavitt Office said Alahverdian, at that time his name was Nicholas Rossi, sexually attacked the ex-girlfriend in Orem, Utah, in 2008.
The authorities at Rhode Island said that he also wanted to register as a sex violator and the FBI said he faced allegations of fraud in Ohio Where he was also convicted of accusations related to sex in 2008.
In the past few years, Alahverdian has become a critic of bluntly on the Department of Children, Youth and Rhode Island, testifying about the creature of state members being sexually harassed and tortured in foster care.
Then in 2020, he told local media outlets, he had a non-Hodgkin stadium final lymphoma and had a week for life.
An obituary published online claimed he died February 29, 2020, but last year, the State Police Rhode Island, a former lawyer and former Alahverdian foster family openly doubted whether he really died.