First things first... Meet
Kristijan Krstic a.k.a. Felix Logan CFO of OptionRiders, B2Gen etc ...
After a very long time of back and forth, preliminary info, hide and seek and other time-wasters, this saga develops into a movie thriller with still unknown outcome. Hopefully not a tragic one.
Following on the April 2021 Court of Appeal 2nd ruling on approved extradition to the USA:
followed by the desperate and melodramatic Mrs Krstic 'cry for help' that shall be further addressed later on for a good reason, the lawyers and the EU human rights 'protectors' step in the to the scene.
After the arrest and detention, lawyers appealed even to the
European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, who stepped in and
halted the US DOJ extradition request on grounds of human rights. In the meantime part of the group was already released to ‘house-arrest’, meaning no movements without reporting to the local police. The 3 main suspects, Kristijan Krstic, his wife Xenia Faye Atilano Krstic and Marko Pavlovic, remained in court detention. Then sometime this summer (July-August 2021) they were also released, with mandatory home confinement fur purely procedural legal reasons – the max legal length of court detention (being in jail while waiting to be trialed or extradited, due to risk of fleeing) expired. So, they were free to go home and report to the designated police station in their home city of Nis, Serbia until further notice.
As strange as it may sound, the Krstic’s were not obliged to surrender their travel documents (Australian, Philippines and Serbian passports-perhaps even some more, but not known so far), while the third one, Marko Pavlovic, had to. It is not clear why was this decided, perhaps the local law enforcement assessed that they would not flee due to 4 of their children, living with them. Or perhaps not…
The family reunion was indeed heavily covered by the media and pained as some sort of a ‘triumph’, as weird as it may sound…
Close-up on the lawyer, he becomes important later on …
So alleged scammers can go home. Well ok, kids are without parents for some time and it may make some sense, right?
And then, it happens …