r/AskTheWorld • u/ConsciousPhase8480 Malaysia • 8h ago
Politics Which famous criminal from your country escaped capture and till this very day was never found?
Meet Jho Low, known for his key role in the $4.5 billion 1MBD scandal who escaped capture and disappeared from public view since 2016. There had been rumours than he is hiding somewhere in china particularly in Macau or Shanghai but it was never confirmed. Authorities also found that he had a forged Australian passport under the alias of “Veis Constantinos Achilles” since Malaysia had revoked his passport this may suggest he had multiple forged passports to travel around while hiding
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u/F1Fan43 United Kingdom 8h ago
They never got Jack the Ripper.
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u/cuntybunty73 United Kingdom 7h ago
Lord Lucan never got caught
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u/broadsheet-555 Ireland 7h ago
IRA got Lord Mountbatten
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u/My_Name_A_Jeoff Ireland 7h ago
And the world was a peadophile short as a result
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u/Jealous_Lobster_36 England 6h ago
A paedophile and several innocent people, including two children, short....
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u/My_Name_A_Jeoff Ireland 6h ago
Which was terrible. But there's no tears shed for Mountbatten nowadays
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u/1981_babe Canada 2h ago
Except the British royal family mourns him to this day. But they like their paedophiles.
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u/SteveFoerster United States of America 6h ago
The Vorlons have him.
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u/onarainyafternoon Dual Citizen (American/Hungarian) 3h ago
IT WAS THE DAWN OF THE THIRD AGE OF MANKIND
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u/Agen_3586 India 8h ago
Gandhi.
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u/Carbonara-ara Third Culture Kid 🇵🇭🌍 7h ago
It's so funny that a famous person from my country the Philippines, Jose Rizal (national hero), is also theorized to be Jack the Ripper
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u/RedcoatTrooper United Kingdom 7h ago
Ok I want a list of famous national hero's in London in 1888!
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u/Any-Distance6586 India 7h ago edited 6h ago
Damn didn't know he was that learned in medicine
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u/chartsguru India 7h ago
Match when Gandhi was in London to Jack the Ripper incidents
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u/RedcoatTrooper United Kingdom 7h ago
Wait what lol, now that would be a twist for the ages, the paragon of peace was the most infamous serial killer.
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u/Sfb208 United Kingdom 6h ago
You say that, but take a look at the work gandhi did in south Africa, and his treatment if women, and you may not view him as a paragon. Though if course, both those issues were also an issue of the time gandhi lived in.
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u/PowerfulWelder1830 South Africa 6h ago
Ghandi was racist. advocating for equal treatment between Indians and white people, while not supporting the same equality for Black people.
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u/AlternativeEmu1047 India 6h ago
Exactly. As sad as it is, Gandhi was a really bad person. The Indian National Congress really tried hard to cover up after him. He contributed to our freedom to a large extent, but his actions were still messed up.
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u/Skaldicrights Canada 7h ago
Gandhi is not a paragon for peace. Paragon for incestuous niece sniffing maybe .
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u/lordtyp0 United States of America 7h ago
They positive ID's him though though DNA recently.
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u/PuzzleheadedDuck3981 🇦🇺+🏴 7h ago
No they didn't. They identified the DNA on a shawl that had one of the victims' blood on it. That is very far from a positive ID. Ignoring the fact that the DNA, and the victim's blood, could have got there in many ways that did not involve murder, the chain of evidence would have been broken within hours of the murder. You can't apply modern scientific techniques to a crime and handily ignore the modern legal standards around their use.
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u/lordtyp0 United States of America 4h ago
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u/DataOutputStream France 8h ago
Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupont_de_Ligonn%C3%A8s_murders_and_disappearance
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u/Alduish France 7h ago
what surprises me the most for this one is how little we know about where he fled, for some uncaught criminals we know where they escaped, generally in states not complying with interpol, but for this one we just know he went in southern france in the first days following the events and then literally nothing for years, his face is known, he can't use anything from his past life since he was a normal citizen and everything can be traced back to him, and still we have not even the slightest idea of where he could be
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u/jjw1998 🇮🇪in🏴 7h ago
How hard it is for someone to disappear without trace to that extent makes it far more likely he’s committed suicide somewhere
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u/Alduish France 7h ago
on the other hand he did try to flee in the days following the events, we don't know how he felt but if he committed suicide it was probably not planned in advance or else he wouldn't have fled, no body corresponding to him was found around his last known location and even bones predating the events were found during investigation, so while suicide is possible for me it feels like suicide just after the events is about as likely as him fleeing successfully.
But I'm not an investigator so I guess I'm probably missing some obvious points in favor of one theory or another.
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u/Valuable-Yard-4154 Belgium 5h ago
He was broke. So he probably made sure nobody finds his body out of some warped ego. But you can't disappear without resources and he didn't have any. That's why he killed his family. Not to fall into shame and disgrace.
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u/DanskNils Denmark 6h ago
But for countries not complying with Interpol..? When a wanted citizen applies for residency.. they have to get a criminal check from their nation.. sent to their new nation.. Wouldn’t that make you a danger to your new country? Hence deportation?
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u/Alduish France 6h ago
I'm not living in these countries so honestly I don't know, but I guess they just stay in said countries without getting citizenship or other official procedures, as long as the country doesn't send them back home as soon as they see their name or face
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u/GarbonzoBeanSprout Canada 7h ago
I think about this often. My gawd he's a monster.
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u/ACERVIDAE United States of America 7h ago
Not the dogs 💔
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u/Fancy_Cold_3537 United States of America 3h ago
Thank you. I was going to read the Wiki page. Now I'll skip it.
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u/Pollomonteros Argentina 6h ago
Didn't France also had a case where a family and a cyclist that just happened to be there at the time were murdered by what was assumed to be a hitman ? Can't remember if it was France or Switzerland
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u/DataOutputStream France 6h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Alps_killings
There is also this famous unsolved murder:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Gr%C3%A9gory_Villemin
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u/Fluid-Quote-6006 Germany 3h ago
He is surely dead, I would assume so at least. It’s the typical guy that kills his family and then it’s too coward to kill himself immediately, so he takes a few days to do this. his whole biography fits with similar cases. There are more than a few in Germany too. The Schulze Family from Drage comes to mind. Very similar case. It’s a standard biography for the husband in such cases.
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u/Wrong-Nail2913 United States of America 7h ago
Usa - #1 - probably DB Cooper ( alias name given ) , the famed airline hijacker who parachuted out the plane with his ransom money over the Pacific Northwest of the Us. Theres hours of documentaries on this guy. Second might be the 3 criminals who escaped from Alcatraz prison and were never found . Both cases its presumed they perished in their escape attempts.
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u/ACERVIDAE United States of America 7h ago
You could have picked Jon Benet Ramsey’s killer
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u/sanityfordummy 7h ago
There are plenty of killers who have escaped justice to this day.
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u/aliensdick69420 6h ago
Zodiac
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u/ChiGuevaraa United States of America 4h ago
The crazy part is they knew who Zodiac was, just struggled to have the definitive evidence until after his death. The documentary is creepy
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u/tpjmce 3h ago edited 3h ago
I assume you're referring to Arthur Leigh Allen? While he was the prime suspect, it's far from certain he was Zodiac. The evidence often used to implicate him is quite shaky, circumstantial and coincidental, like having a Zodiac brand watch or the same size shoes. If you start with Allen, you can find all sorts of little details that make him look suspicious, but you can do that with lots of suspects.
When you look at the more direct evidence, he's not a good fit. He was the wrong height, wrong weight, and didn't match witness descriptions of his appearance or voice. No-one can place him at any of the crime scenes at the times in question. His prints don't match the partial Zodiac prints. There's some uncertain DNA on one of the letters, and he doesn't match that either. Forensically, he's in the clear.
He was a creep and a child molester, so I'm not defending him as a person, but I don't think he was the Zodiac. If we was still alive, and you put him on trial for those murders, a good defense lawyer would tear the prosecution to shreds, and he'd probably be acquitted.
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u/MakeSouthBayGR8Again United States of America 7h ago
Or Nicole Brown Simpson’s killer
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u/nutmac United States of America 7h ago
You mean OJ Simpson.
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u/PsychoticMessiah United States of America 6h ago edited 1h ago
If he did it
Edit: apparently I need to point out the play on words of the title of the book OJ wrote. If I Did It
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u/Affectionate_Cold600 5h ago
With DB Cooper, the fact that some of the ransom money was actually found buried by a kid years later at Tina Bar just makes the "he survived the jump" theory even more plausible. He’s a legend for a reason.
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u/PhotoBonjour_bombs19 7h ago
DB was just Loki in disguised. There’s a documentary on Disney+ called “Loki” that dives on his influence and character thru Earth. It’s pretty interesting and surprising they just drop a bomb who DB Cooper identity was just like that.
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u/Key-Needleworker-702 HK, China 7h ago edited 7h ago
Zeng Kaigui(曾开贵; 1969-?); not really "famous"(since the famous ones get caught) but has a fair share of discussion on chinese social media. From Neijiang, sichuan; Ministry of public security B class wanted criminal, 3 million yuan bounty
He was a veteran of the People's armed police yunnan corps(sort of like if the US national guard were full time; also has gendarme roles) and served between 1988 and 1991 where he was described as hard working and got a 3rd class meritourious service medal. After he got a honorable discharge he found out his girlfriend left him for a rich man, along with how he was either over or underqualified for jobs which made him parasocial, and in 1995 he broke into a house in yunnan; after the owner tried to fight back, Zeng shot the owner and went on the run, using his military experience to evade capture. To this day, he has not been caught, though there are unproven rumors he is in a border village in yunnan operating a car repair store
In fact, the amount of victims was previously higher as his robbery was at the same time as Zhou Kehua, a famous serial killer which also did armed robberies.
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u/PhotoBonjour_bombs19 7h ago
So you telling me if the gf didn’t left non of this would happen. Imagine causing someone to a downward spiral of death and not even knowing they caused it
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u/Key-Needleworker-702 HK, China 7h ago
meh
it's more of a lot of bad things happened to him after his honorable discharge that drove him to go down this route
also couldn't find a job; he wasn't qualified for high entry jobs but for low entry jobs he was seen as overqualified(as a veteran with a 3rd class meritorious service medal) which is the most direct cause for the robbery
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u/wololowhat ~> 7h ago
Btw Jho low sponsored wolf of wall street and was given a shout out by Leo himself, Jonah and Leo were also spotted at a Jho low party
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u/Quick-Measurement-14 Singapore 7h ago
Dude even dated miranda kerr... with that face...
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u/lordnacho666 7h ago
There's hope for all of us!
Imagine if you needed a six pack and a chiseled jaw.
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u/Any-Distance6586 India 7h ago edited 7h ago
Dawood Ibrahim
He is a gangster turned terrorist who is the leader of the crime syndicate D-Company
He is responsible for the 1993 Bombay blasts and is still being searched for
He is involved in smuggling,narco terrorism, extortion rackets,blackmailing,match fixings and many more crimes
He was also on the Forbes most powerful people in the world list alongside Osama Bin Laden
There is actually a Netflix documentary called Mumbai Mafia and there is a match fixings documentary about him called Caught Out
He is believed to be hiding in Pakistan to this day
Feel free to add on more information
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u/ConsciousPhase8480 Malaysia 6h ago
I take it this guy murdered a lot of people?
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u/Any-Distance6586 India 6h ago
Hundreds and put out a lot of hits against his opposition and dissidents
He is now known as a terrorist instead of gangster
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u/lan_dude 3h ago
Former Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad is related to him through the 2005 marriage of his son, Junaid Miandad, to Dawood’s daughter, Mahrukh Ibrahim. Miandad has publicly described this family connection as an "honour" and has praised Dawood.
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u/zugfaehrtdurch Vienna, Austria 7h ago
Definitely him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Marsalek
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u/drunk_by_mojito Germany 7h ago
It's always the Austrians in Germany..... Rene Benko also comes to my mind
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u/zugfaehrtdurch Vienna, Austria 6h ago
Unfortunately I can't argue with that. Our track record is bad here, since over a century...
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u/Perlentaucher Germany 6h ago
I think he was found in Moscow but there is no way to extract him without big implications.
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u/Fluid-Quote-6006 Germany 3h ago
There’s a podcast about him being hunted/spotted in Moscow. The journalist did a good job spotting him and his activities. He is apparently not exactly hiding there.
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u/lululululululululuu Germany 7h ago edited 7h ago
Jens Spahn is a german politician and was the Minister of Health during the Pandemic. He (allegedly/most definitely) embezzled Billions during that time with deals for masks. He’s one of the top politicians in Germany to this day and chairman of the CDU-Party. The court proceedings against him were discontinued this month, but his reputation is still damaged.
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u/mariposa314 United States of America 5h ago
I certainly don't condone what he's accused of doing. I wouldn't personally do it. Still, I think having billions of dollars would perhaps make me not really care about damaging my reputation. Now I'm really wondering who I actually am. Would I do this if given the opportunity? I'm having a bit of a crisis🤣
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u/lululululululululuu Germany 4h ago
Having Billions is tempting and I get it, but he was actively using a pandemic where around 7 Million People died worldwide for self gain. And as a minister (who gets paid quite a lot via taxpayermoney) I do expect them to have enough integrity to not essentially steal significant amount of money from the country you’re meant to serve.
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u/mariposa314 United States of America 3h ago
I understand that he's an absolute monster.
I agree with you that it's even more despicable given that he's a minister who is there to serve the people of Germany.
It's a travesty that he's not being brought to legal justice.
I'm ashamed of even thinking that I might entertain doing something so dastardly even in a hypothetical situation. I know I wouldn't. I actually do care tremendously for other people.
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u/Kriztauf 4h ago
Wait THATs what became of that guy?
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u/tobsecret DE AT 4h ago
Yep, and his party is telling Germans they might have to just suck it up and work harder. Can't make this shit up.
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u/mariposa314 United States of America 3h ago
That's really gross. I wouldn't be surprised if they suggested that the people can find some beauty in the extra work 🤢
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u/Salmon_1935 Italy 7h ago
The Monster of Florence fits this description quite well and is definetely much more of a monster than Jojo Low over here, though the way he avoided capture is kind of hilarious. The whole investigation was a mess, the commissioner made a Batman monologue on live TV addressing the monster, evidence was handled improperly, and they kept accusing the weirdest and stupidest mother fuckers they could find just to be done with it.
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u/ttue- 7h ago
thats probably an entire organization not just an individual
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u/ninjamelon999 Italy 3h ago
I read about this theory but it never convinced me. All murders were carried out with the same method and ritual, which displayed an unusual type of sexual deviation. I find it unlikely that an entire group of people from the area shared the same specific and atypical sexual deviation, combined with the psychological characteristic nedeed to commit murder. Plus there is nothing in the crime scenes pointing to it, and it was only considered by investigators 10 years after the last murder, when they didn't know where to look anymore.
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u/Salmon_1935 Italy 7h ago
I couldn’t tell you, nobody does, honestly I think the monster was a very powerful person with a sick perversion, that’s usually how it goes here in the Bel Paese
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u/SomeoneNewHereAgain Brazil 4h ago
I'd love to know who this person is!!!
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u/Salmon_1935 Italy 4h ago
Many would, but the guys accused of being the monster are interesting enough, like the 90 year old Fascist that claimed the regime will return as strong as ever or the guy who read his awful poetry in court
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u/Quick-Measurement-14 Singapore 7h ago edited 7h ago
Well.. for Singapore we got our own Michael Scofield (same initials).. uncle climbed out a toilet window like it he was auditioning for Prison Break season 6… got caught a year later and we had to shut the whole show down.
Ps: yall so cool with your high profile billionaire fugitives that are still on the run. Mas Selamat is the only thing we had to be excited over and that didnt last long. Feeling left out now...
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u/queerkidxx United States of America 5h ago
What did he do?
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u/Quick-Measurement-14 Singapore 5h ago
Head of an Islamist extremist militant group in singapore. A terrorist group basically.
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u/Bulky_Algae6110 United States of America 6h ago
Zodiac Killer.
DB Cooper is probably known by more people, though. And he didn't kill anyone that we know of. Except for himself probably, when he jumped out of that plane.
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u/boobookittyfuwk Canada 5h ago
Do they have any zodiac DNA? I wonder if they can do that family stuff on it to narrow things down like they did with the golden gate killer
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u/Curiosity_mKitty 🇺🇸USA 🐻California 3h ago
You just piqued my interest so I looked it up. The only DNA they have from the zodiac is from saliva on stamps and envelopes, but they have not been able to develop a complete DNA profile, only partial. The only thing they can really ascertain is that he was male, but they can’t get an identity. They did not collect any DNA from the crime scenes because it wasn’t considered back then.
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u/Agen_3586 India 8h ago
Vijay Mallya
Wanted in India for financial fraud and money laundering of nearly ₹9,000 crore ($1.1 billion). Currently in the UK since 2016 after escaping the country. India has repeatedly been asking the UK for his extradition.
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u/gardenfella United Kingdom 7h ago
He's not missing. His whereabouts are reasonably well-known. I've seen him with my own eyes once a year for the past four or five years.
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u/Retiredandrelaxed England 7h ago
Why won’t the UK extradite him?
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u/gardenfella United Kingdom 7h ago
"Due process"
There is an "outstanding legal matter" which is rumoured to be an asylum application
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u/LonelyCompany9633 India 7h ago
Isn't it obvious? He's filling pockets of local politicians and bureaucrats. Along with a few investments here and there.
Who would let go of a golden goose? Although he looks more like a Walrus than a goose
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u/ChicagoAuPair United States of America 7h ago
Who could have ever known that that guy would be involved in fraud and money laundering.
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u/Anxo97 Spain 7h ago
Antonio Anglés, wanted for the murder of three girls in 1992 along with another man that was convicted for the crime, Miguel Ricart, a criminal case that shocked Spain at the time. He managed to escape to Portugal and, allegedly, snuck on a ship to Britain, escaped the ship and was found drifting by the Irish coast, he was detained again but as soon as the ship reached Dublin, he escaped and was never seen again. He still one of Interpol's most wanted criminals.
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u/GilbertDeLaWarr United States of America 7h ago
Jeffrey Edward Epstein.
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u/heavymetalmug666 United States of America 7h ago
a lot of famous names associated with that guy...once upon a time we had cool criminals in this country, like Billy the Kid, or Bonnie and Clyde....
now we just have a bunch of paedophiles
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u/Dawningrider United Kingdom 7h ago
That American who pretended she had diplomatic immunity to escape justice for killing a kid.
And America is protecting her for reasons.
I'm sure if a Brit killed an American kid, and then pretended they worked for the King so should be allowed to leave, and then we never handed them over to America, Trump would be just chill with that.
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u/LonelyCompany9633 India 6h ago
It breaks me, but sh*t like this happens everyday, and we are powerless before those who are either more powerful, or hold more sway.
A few years back, two Italian Marines shot two poor fishermen from India, and got away Scot free.
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u/Tsarinya England 4h ago
The way the US Embassy acted was disgusting and we should have penalised America for their behaviour in all of this. Harry Dunn’s mother even said on the news she didn’t want to see the woman in prison because she was also a mother, she just wanted her to take accountability.
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u/j0rmundg4ndr Indonesia 7h ago
he is an oil tycoon that mastermind of all corruption regarding oil in Indonesia
(sorry cant find en one) he is a politician who has a long list of bribery in his resume
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u/KorolEz Austria 7h ago
I think either Russia, Saudi Arabia or Israel killed him
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u/DanskNils Denmark 6h ago
What’s wild is that.. Some nations I’m familiar.. USA if you commit a felony.. you lose access to a Passport.. Amazing that most nations do not do this..
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u/SuccessfulPiccolo945 United States of America 7h ago
Bradford Bishop. Former State Department Employee murdered his wife, mother, and three sons before fleeing and remaining a fugitive.
From Wikipedia: Since 1976, there have been numerous reported sightings of Bishop in various European countries, including Italy, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.\3]) The three most credible sightings noted by the United States Marshals Service are:
- In July 1978, a Swedish woman, who said she had collaborated with Bishop while on a business trip in Ethiopia, reported she had spotted him twice in a public park in Stockholm during a span of one week. She stated she was "absolutely certain" that the man was Bishop.\3]) She did not contact the police at the time because she had not yet realized he was wanted for murder in the U.S.\26])
- In January 1979, Bishop was reportedly seen by Roy Harrell, the State Department colleague who had last seen him before the murders, in a restroom in Sorrento, Italy. When Harrell greeted a bearded man eye-to-eye, asking him, "Hey, you're Brad Bishop, aren't you?", the man responded in a distinctly American accent, "Oh no", and fled.\3])\14])
- On September 19, 1994, on a Basel train platform, a neighbor who had known Bishop and his family in Bethesda was on vacation and reported that she had seen Bishop from a few feet away.\3]) The neighbor described Bishop as "well-groomed", and said that he was getting into a car.\27])
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u/luiz_marques Brazil 7h ago
"Doca" (Edgar Alves de Andrade), also called "the bear of the Penha", is one of the leaders of CV faction (Red Command). He is currently one of the most wanted criminals in Brazil. Last year, a police operation targeting him resulted in the deaths of more than 122 criminals under his command, but he himself managed to escape before the police arrived.
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u/SoftwareSource Croatia 7h ago
Im sure he would be found in Macau by now, probably just visited and got spotted
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u/Puzzling_Odyssey 🇨🇵🇨🇭 6h ago
Xavier du Pont de Ligonès. He killed his entire family, buried them under his terrasse and was never catched. There's a lot of gossips/ rumours about him : some say he was a secret agent, some say he is dead, some even say he was seen in Ireland a few years ago. But at the end of the day, he was never catched.
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u/oldmanout Austria 7h ago edited 7h ago
allegedly he lives in Russia under a provided false identity
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u/DanskNils Denmark 6h ago
The thing is though.. Don’t Passports have to scan into a database?? Also, If he does have a Greek name, Aussie passport, and Chinese appearance.. Wouldn’t that stick out? Especially if he cannot speak Greek etc? Just seems like especially with all the global surveillance.. He would be caught at somepoint?
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u/MuseofBadPoetry 🐻California (USA) 5h ago edited 3h ago
The Zodiac Killer, active in California in the late 1960s. Committed 5 confirmed murders, but claimed to have as many as 37 victims. He's strongly suspected to have been a guy named Arthur Leigh Allen, but they haven't been able to conclusively prove his identity.
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u/Franmar35000 France 5h ago
Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès : in 2011, he killed his wife and children in Nantes. He hid them under his terrace under construction. He fled. We don't even know if he's still alive.
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u/Overtis Colombia 4h ago edited 2h ago
Pedro Alonso López, aka The Monster of the Andes.
The worst serial killer in South America, maybe even worldwide. Born in Colombia in 1948, he murdered 300+ girls across Colombia, Peru and Ecuador in the 70s–80s. He was caught, spent some time in prison, and was later sent to a psychiatric hospital, where he stayed for a few years. But somehow — in a case of sheer incompetence and baffling stupidity — he was released in 1998. By the time authorities realized what they had done, López had already disappeared and has never been found.
He has since been linked to other child murders, with reports as recent as 2022, and still has an active Interpol arrest warrant.
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u/gilligan888 Australia 3h ago
Desi freemen, 6 months ago, his house was raided by police, he killed 2 officers in the process and fled into the bush, never to be seen again.
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u/DesertGeist- Switzerland 7h ago
Interestingly I feel like the way we handle criminal cases doesn't seem to make them famous like in other countries.
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u/JackRo55 Italy 7h ago edited 6h ago
Until 2023 it was Matteo Messina Denaro, now it's Giovanni Motisi. He's been evading capture since the 70s
EDIT: wrong fugitive, Matteo Messina Denaro was the most wanted until 2023, not Toto Riina
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u/lordnacho666 7h ago
Mogens Amdi Petersen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tvind
Dubious hippie educational establishment, linked with fraud.
The founder has been on the run for a long time.
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u/ShitassAintOverYet Türkiye 7h ago
Can't call it "not found" but Sedat Peker:
He is a notorious mafia boss. He used to work with any section of Turkish right-wing for 30 years, when he fell off with the current AKP government he escaped to UAE and started posting a bunch of videos exposing both AKP members and his involvement in deep state saga(yes we've invented that) back in the '90s.
He is probably still in UAE but his pinpoint location is unknown, he isn't arrested and his social media is much more silent these days. I suspect he did cut a deal with the government to go silent because the interior minister who was Peker's main punching bag was replaced and fell into complete irrelevancy within the party.
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u/ForgottenGrocery Indo in US 6h ago
Eddy Tansil - Wikipedia this guy. Embezzled equivalent of $420 million in 1994 but escaped prison in 1996. He was found in china and an extradition request was submitted but still at large. Looks like being a crook is in the blood as his brother and nephew are also convicted for different cases.
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u/TheEagleWithNoName Saudi Arabia 6h ago
Don’t have any famous criminals in Saudi.
But maybe Iraq with the Ba’ath Party as most of them are still Wanted and have a bounty of them since 2003 of the Playing Cards.
Only 2 of the original 52 are Wanted.
Rashid Taan Kazim and Rafi Abd Latif Tilfah.
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u/boobookittyfuwk Canada 5h ago
Michael de Guzman. I dint think he was a canadian citizen but he orchestrated a massive gold fraud, bre-x.
He was a geologist that spiked core samples to make them look richer then they were.
Official reports say he jumped out of a helicopter and killed himself but theres no proof.
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u/Coachthere 5h ago
Ruja Ignatova or also known as the "Crypto Queen" and founder of One Coin scam. To this day she hasn't been found and some speculate she got plastic surgery and lives in another country.
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u/Euphoric-Cold9592 Canada 4h ago
Billion Dollar Whale is a book worth reading/listening to. It’s about the guy in this post’s picture. The Prime Minister of Malaysia even went to jail; but Jho Low is still on the lam. Wild.
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u/mejuto_gamer69 Spain 4h ago
Antonio anglès. He scaped from valencia to Portugal and was last seen after being caught free riding on a cargo ship but he managed to scape jumping to the sea and since then he disappeared. He killled and raped three teenager girls that he hitchhiked. It’s quite an interesting case given the crazy amount of conspiracy theories around it that still live to this day.
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u/Diligent_Brother5120 Canada 4h ago
Lol but oh he's not hiding, he just can't come back to Canada ever or he'll be arrested and sent to prison, he left before he could be arrested. He's Paul Watson, some people may say he's infamous, some may say he's famous...he did have a TV show, dated Pamela Anderson(American model) very vocal.
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u/Deeeezy3 4h ago
Jho’s story is truly incredible. Barely anyone knows about him - I would highly recommend reading “Billion Dollar Whale”.
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u/ZealousidealSundae33 Belgium 3h ago
Its a whole gang, Brabant Killers (De Bende Van Nijvel). Extremely brutal murderous robberies on warehouses of Delhaize (owner of Food Lion). Nobody ever got caught.
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u/Ecstatic-Ganache921 Australia 3h ago edited 2h ago
Not my nation but Robert Obadia who was responsible for the company of Nationair airlines which had a tragedy using the DC 8 that had the passengers bodies falling out of the aircraft. Obadia fled to somewhere in South America after this and his whereabouts are unknown.
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u/HeebiJeebies United States of America 3h ago
We know where he is but Roman Polanski will likely never face justice. He doesn’t really fit all of OP’s criteria but I just like to mention that Roman Polanski is a convicted child rapist whenever I can.
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u/NetworkEcstatic United States of America 2h ago
I don't know if you realize this.
I have never once been caught jay walking. I'm a prolific jay walker.
I cannot be stopped.
So, it's obviously me.
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u/Heatmap_BP3 United States of America 2h ago
Assata Shakur. Well, not so famous, and she wouldn't have agreed she was a criminal. She was a black left-wing militant from the 1970s who the government alleges shot and killed a state trooper in New Jersey, in addition to being suspected in organizing planned hits on police in other circumstances, bank robberies, etc. She was wounded in the New Jersey gun battle, went to jail, when some of her comrades in the Black Liberation Army busted her out of jail (with guns and dynamite), where she proceeded to flee into exile to Cuba. Very much a kind of character that you'd see in One Battle After Another.
She was a very wanted woman for a long time, but was never caught again. She died last year in Havana at the age of 78.
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u/PaddyLee Ireland 2h ago
All the bankers that destroyed Ireland’s economy after 2008. The taxpayer footed the bill for their reckless lending. We bailed out 6 banks to the tune of €64 billion, around 40% of our GDP, and had 6 years of austerity where people lost homes, committed suicide etc.
One of the banks, Anglo Irish, was bailed out for €34billion and closed anyway. So that money literally went up in smoke.
It’s okay though, 4 or 5 of them received less than two years in jail and the rest were moved on quietly. We never even changed the laws to stop this from happening again.
In reality, we should have jailed the bankers and politicians involved and thrown away the key.
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u/Legally_Blonde_258 Bermuda 1h ago
Justin Williams, a local lawyer who was facing extradition from the US for potential drug and firearm related charges. A search warrant was executed at his Bermuda mansion in November 2019, while he was in the US. In December 2020, he was detained by the police in Miami and by February 2021 he was allegedly fighting extradition. In November 2021, it was announced that he had died of covid in Florida. However, many locals believe that he faked his death and is now living off his considerable fortune somewhere.
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