{"id":42924,"date":"2025-11-10T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=42924"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:53:02","slug":"they-were-last-seen-a-month-ago-driving-to-meet-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=42924","title":{"rendered":"They were last seen a month ago driving to meet \u2018investors\u2019."},"content":{"rendered":"

The bodies of both a crypto millionaire and his wife have allegedly been discovered in a United Arab Emirates desert after being killed and dismembered.<\/p>\n

Roman Novak, 38, was a\u00a0Russian<\/a>\u00a0crypto multi-millionaire and his wife Anna, 37, was a former TV reporter in their home country.<\/p>\n

It is believed that two fighters from the ongoing war between Russia and\u00a0Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0and a former murder squad detective were behind the killing.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0couple<\/a>\u00a0were last seen last month when they drove out to meet ‘investors’ in Dubai’s mountain resort Hatta, with a ‘large ransom’ demand following though it was left ‘not paid’, leading to their demise.<\/p>\n

It’s believed that they were killed in a villa in Hatta nearly a month ago, as three Russian suspects have since been\u00a0detained<\/a>\u00a0in St Petersburg, and the Stavropol and Krasnodar regions of Russia after getting back from the Arab nation.<\/p>\n

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The couple were killed and dismembered after being kidnapped (East2west News)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Allegedly, they were the ‘investors’ who kidnapped the couple and demanded that the millionaire hand over the password to his crypto wallet.<\/p>\n

Roman didn’t refuse, as news outlet Fontanka\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that the wallet was actually empty.<\/p>\n

The men who were detained have been named as Russian citizens Konstantin Shakht, 53, an ex-homicide investigator who is now a\u00a0drugs<\/a>\u00a0smuggler, as well as Yury Sharypov, 46, and Vladimir Dalekin, 45, who both served for Russia in the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

As Roman and Anna failed to raise a ransom, they were ‘killed and then dismembered’ as all three detained suspects will be remanded in custody until 28 December, while it is said that five other Russians, all below the age of 25, are linked to the case.<\/p>\n

The pair were based in Dubai and often took to social media of their apparent lavish lifestyles, including supercars and private jets, though they would be ‘extorted’ for\u00a0cryptocurrency<\/a>, as reports cited law enforcement.<\/p>\n

They have left behind underage children who have since been collected by their parents following the horrific incident.<\/p>\n

Svetlana Petrenko from the Russian Investigative Committee, stated: \u201cThe investigation has established that the killers had accomplices who helped organise the abduction,<\/p>\n

\u201cThey rented cars and premises where the victims were held by force.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the murder, the perpetrators disposed of the knives and the victims\u2019 personal belongings, leaving them in different Emirates.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The three men suspected to be involved in the killing have been detained (East2west News)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The committee further confirmed that the couple were meant to meet investors in Hatta, as their personal driver took them to a car park by a lake, where they were transferred to another car and never seen alive again.<\/p>\n

Roman had apparently messaged contacts around this time to reveal he was ‘stuck in the mountains on the Oman border’ and needed $200,000 (\u00a3152,000).<\/p>\n

While their phones were tracked for two days, revealing they went from Hatta to Oman and then Cape Town, South Africa, where the signals vanished early in October.<\/p>\n

Investigations revealed that the killers planned for the phones to be left on to mislead authorities, though Russian and UAE law enforcement worked together to solve the double murder.<\/p>\n

Fontaka went on: \u201cEmirati police found traces of Anna Novak\u2019s blood at the villa, blood in the rented car, a cache of knives near the crime scene, and one of the organisers\u2019 T-shirts left behind in haste.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The couple would share lavish aspects of their lives (East2west News)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Relatives close to the couple raised the alarm, as Roman was under investigation at the time as he was accused of the theft of over \u00a3380 million from crypto investors as he claimed it was for business development.<\/p>\n

A local report suggested that the victims of his scam were ‘business men from China and Middle Eastern countries’, while Komsomolskaya Pravda [KP] newspaper noted that the man presented as someone operating on the level of Arab Sheikhs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn reality, Novak was simply a talented manipulator who managed to convince people to hand over hundreds of millions of dollars,\u201d they reported.<\/p>\n

It was claimed that he ran a crypto network via an app made by Ukrainian programmers, as Russian low enforcement were looking for crypto exchanges in Moscow to find traces of the investments.<\/p>\n

Roman has served a prison sentence for embezzlement in the past, according to local outlets.<\/p>\n

Featured Image Credit: East2west News<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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