On August 17, Montenegro police detained Roman Ziemyan in an elite residential complex in Podgorica, where he was hiding under a different name. He is suspected of fraud, theft and money laundering amounting to $21 million using the digital currency trading platform FutureNet. Warrants for his arrest have been issued in South Korea and Poland.
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Fileleftheros, the authorities of the Republic of Cyprus began the procedure for revoking his “golden” passport, issued on August 28, 2019.
Polish citizen Roman Ziemian was one of the foreign millionaires who received a passport from the Republic of Cyprus through investment. Cypriot passports were also issued to his wife and child. After accelerated naturalization, Roman decided to change his last name, becoming Hortman according to documents.
In 2018, Roman Ziemyan, together with Stefan Morgenstern, founded the FutureNet crypto scheme with the FuturoCoin (FTO) token. The company sold investment packages ranging from $10 to $10,000, promising profits. In 2018, Polish authorities warned that FutureNet could be a pyramid scheme. In South Korea, about 950 people became victims of digital scammers. Korean and Polish authorities have asked Interpol for help in apprehending the suspects and extraditing them.
In the fall of 2022, Ziemyan was arrested in Italy. The country's authorities placed him under house arrest. The suspect took advantage of this and escaped. At the same time, FutureNet co-founder Stefan Morgenstern was taken into custody in Greece. He was also placed under house arrest and fled to Albania. In August 2023, Albanian authorities arrested Morgenstern and expressed their readiness to extradite him to South Korea.
After Roman Ziemyan was detained in Podgorica in August 2024, a Montenegrin court is considering a claim for his extradition to South Korea, where he could face life imprisonment.
As Phileleftheros reports, the police of the Republic of Cyprus informed the Ministry of Internal Affairs that the holder of the “golden” passport, Roman Ziemyan, was put on the international wanted list by the authorities of South Korea and Poland. The process of revoking Cypriot citizenship has begun. The Warsaw branch of Interpol has agreed to provide the Cypriot authorities with evidence in its possession in a case of fraud and money laundering.
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