Overview
- Police in Lübeck and prosecutors said local officers detained the fugitive in early November in Dubai under an international arrest warrant.
- He was legally convicted in 2023 of severe sexual abuse of a child and received a five-year prison sentence that he did not begin serving.
- A public appeal in early October, including a feature on the TV program Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst, generated tips that helped locate him; BILD reports a viewer in the UAE identified him.
- Officials expect to transfer him to Germany within days, where he will be taken directly to prison to serve the five-year term.
- Investigators say he fled via Bulgaria, lived in the UAE as an IT entrepreneur, used aliases to conceal his identity, and likely kept working with contacts in Germany.