How was the Comverse CEO arrested?
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Comverse founder and CEO Jacob Alexander has been arrested in Sri Lanka after his Skype call betrayed its position. Remember? We covered at the end of the previous week. Today, the NY Times dishes a follow-up of the story, focusing on Moshe Buller, the private detective based in Israel who traced the fugitive CEO.
“Yet Mr. Alexander apparently was not able to elude Mr. Buller, who popped onto the international radar two years ago when he investigated a supposed affair between the international soccer star David Beckham and his assistant Rebecca Loos.”
Aug 28, 2006 | By Nuno
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Kobi Alexander hasn’t actually been arrested.
Many in Israel, some acquainted personally with the private investigator in question, doubt very much Alexander was even sighted. There have also been doubts of said PI’s claims of having been involved in the Beckham story.
Reputable Israeli business newspapers such as The Marker, Haaretz’s business paper, and Globes have been delving into the indiscrepancies of the PI’s claims for a few days now, so far, in Hebrew only.
I can only say that Maariv, that broke the story, has ‘yellow’ tendencies.
Thanks for pointing out this. According to the daily Haaretz, “he was caught in a villa in the town of Negombo.” So does that mean the police still don’t know where to find him?
That was last week. This week, having come to their senses (and having gotten more information), Haaretz reporters are saying this:
“The question that remains, however, is why would Alexander call a house in Caesarea when no one has been there for several weeks already. This question becomes even more relevant when one considers what Buller told Rafi Reshef of Channel 10 - that Alexander is in Sri Lanka with his family.
Buller made additional claims to Reshef that raise further questions: Reshef asked Buller if he had seen Alexander with his own eyes, and Buller replied: “I saw him sound asleep.”
A slightly different version, however, was relayed to Globes and TheMarker: “I arrived at Alexander’s villa in the early morning hours,” Buller reported. “I saw him at 3 A.M. He was standing up, wearing a shirt with a Timberland logo, typing away at his laptop computer. His hair was longer than in the newspaper photos and he was wearing different glasses, but it was him.”" etc.
You get the picture.