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.
Scottish police said officers arrested Nicholas Alahverdian in the Woodlands area of ​​Glasgow after a warrant was issued by Edinburgh Sheriff Court the previous day.
The 34-year-old player who has gone under a number of other aliases, now because of the court on Friday.
A police spokesman suspended another action until the question to the Scottish Crown Office, who oversees prosecution, but a spokesman for the institution that refused to comment.
Spokesman Edinburgh Sheriff Court also did not email asking for comments.
The Utah Office of the David Leavitt region, which was charged by Alahverdian in connection with rape in Utah 2008, refused to comment on the extradition process.
“We again thank 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; Email requesting comments sent to “Alahverdian Family Office,” which has sent notifications to 2020 on funeral services and warnings in Rhode Island.
Alahverdian was found in a hospital in Glasgow last month under the name assumed from Arthur Knight after becoming severe illness with Covid-19.
He was given a guarantee last week as he waited for extradition to the US, reported WPRI-TV.
The Leavitt Office said Alahverdian, at the time of the name Nicholas Rossi, sexual abuse of ex-girlfriends in Orem, Utah, in 2008.
The authorities at Rhode Island said he also wanted in their country because he failed to register as a sex of the perpetrators and the FBI said he faced allegations Fraud in Ohio, where he was also convicted of accusations related to sex in 2008.
In the past few years, Alahverdian has strongly criticized the Rhode Island of the Department of Children, Teens and Families, testifying in front of members of the country’s parliamentary about creatures of sexual abuse and tortured When fostered.
Then in 2020, he told local media he had the final stages of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and had weeks to live.
Obituari published online claimed he died February 29, 2020, but last year, Rhode Island State Police, a former Alahverdian lawyer and the former foster family in public doubts whether he really died.