Kristijan Krstic & wife disappear after home detention release
Well that didn’t take long.
Just two weeks after being let out of custody, Kristijan Krstic and his wife have violated their release conditions and fled.
In July 2020, at the behest of the FBI, Serbian authorities arrested eleven suspects tied to Kristijan Krstic’s $70 million dollar Ponzi empire.
Krstic (right) and his wife were two of the arrested suspects.
As per Serbian law, Krstic was released after being held for a year on July 23rd. His wife, Ksenija Fej Atilano Krstic, had been released to home detention in 2020 due to pregnancy.
The Belgrade High Court released Krstic and nine suspects to home detention.
As part of the conditions of their release, Krstic and the released suspects were required to report to police every Monday and Thursday.
As reported by Niske Vesti, Krstic, his wife and accomplice Marko Pavlovic have since gone missing.
Pavlovic last reported to police on Thursday, July 29th.
Krsitijan and his wife Ksenija Fej Atilano Krstic (right) last reported a week later on Thursday, August 5th.
Police attended the addresses provided by the Krstics and Pavlovic on August 8th. None of them were home.
Neighbors at one of the addresses the Krstic’s provided stated “no one had lived there for a long time”.
At an alternative address provided, police found the wife of another suspect.
She told them
she last saw (the Krstics) on August 6, and that she did not know where they were now, nor did she know the phone number of any of them.
The Krstics have four children. Due to their indictment and extradition case, the High Court ordered their children released to a “temporary guardian”.
An approved visit on July 23rd saw the Krstic’s reunited with their children. The children have since remained in the custody of the Krstics.
When questioned about the arrangement, the Center for Social Work told Niske Vesti the temporary guardianship had been terminated because they had not received a “new guardianship request”.
Juzne Vesti reports that, for some reason, the Krstics were not required to surrender their passports upon release.
Neighbors at the address provided by Marko Pavlovic claimed they hadn’t seen him or knew where he was.
Pavlovic’s wife answered the door. She told police she hadn’t seen her husband “for more than two weeks”.
Pavlovic had been required to surrender his passport upon release.
Police admitted they’d lost the primary suspect in a $70 million fraud case to the High Court on August 28th.
The police also helpfully informed the court that, almost a month after the Krstics and Pavlovic fled, they have no idea as to their current whereabouts.
The Krstic’s and Pavlovic were represented by the same lawyer, Milan Petrovic. Since the Krstic’s and Pavlovic’s disappearance Petrovic hasn’t been reachable.
Niske Vesti report that locals familiar with the circumstances expected the Krstics to flee upon release.
At the time the attorney Milan Petrovic insisted “there was no reason for (the Krstics) to disappear while the European Court was in their favor.”
BehindMLM readers have suggested Kristijan Krstic has links to and is being protected by the Serbian state.
We might just be seeing that play out.
Update 2nd August 2022 – Kristijan Krstic and Xenia Atilano may be hiding out in the Philippines.
Update 4th November 2023 – Kristijan Krstic was arrested in Georgia in February 2023. He was subsequently extradited to the US on October 30th.
The status of Krstic’s wife, Xenia, remains unclear.
Totally unexpected.
I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you.
This has never happened before. Ever.
Wow. That makes me the only one who saw this coming, I guess.
Yay, me.
You saw this coming and kept it to yourself?!
Why didn’t you throw the Serbian police and High Court a bone???
It’s not like they could reasonably be expected to also see this coming. This turn of events caught everyone off-guard.
Hey, I can’t just give away my rare and unique gift of insight for free!
And you kept this nugget to yourself? Selfish
These cops are really useless! No one can stop them from tricking others anymore?
Hate to be the party breaker but…kind of expected.
Krstic family lawyer is from the ruling party, connected. One of those that finish the important stuff. Like acquittals for criminals, behind the curtain deals, high profile cases with ‘public’ interest etc…
Yes, we say here again loud and clear – the corrupt state system les by the crooked politicians for decades is the organiser and facilitator of this and many other scams. Or at least a friendly host to fleeing criminals, wanted worldwide. Like Ruja Ignativa between 2017 and 2019, probably.
Europe’s biggest problem and EU black hole, besides Belarus and Albania. Poor people living over there battle this reality every single day.
Even Ray Charles could see this coming. There was no doubt in my mind they would do a runner if given the chance.
It is hard to fathom how ignorant the Serbian authorities were to allow this to happen. Even if they were warned, they would not have believed it.
I mean Kristijan Krstic swore on his mother’s life they wouldn’t run, or some such nonsense and they bought it.
Do you think they are still in Serbia? Also makes we wonder if there are some pissed off people after them as well. Perhaps an organised hit or 2 might bring even better justice to these peeps.
Difficult to say if they’re in Serbia still. Serbian police have conveniently given them the Krstic’s a month’s head start.
I think Serbia might be too hot. Even if the state is sheltering them, all it’d take is someone from the media to blow that open.
There are a lot of nearby EU countries to hide in. Dubai etc.
Unless the FBI pull a rabbit out of their hat, I think that theater video provided to the media with wifey doing a song and dance at Krstic’s release will be the last anyone sees of them.
Ruja Ignatova, Igor Alberts, Kristijan Krstic, Frank Ricketts (plenty of others I can’t think of off the top of my head)…
Europe’s incompetence in prosecuting high-profile MLM Ponzi scammers (tens to hundreds of millions in ill-gotten gains) is growing.
They likely would flee to Russia, which would be out-with the reach of the FBI. Even the CIA can’t get their hands on Edward Snowden who remains there.
Not far to travel, easy visa options, lax banking, anti USA, and they likely already speak Russian or it won’t be too hard to learn it.
Anyone checked in on Armenta or Ignatov lately? Those two have good reasons (about twenty to thirty of them each) to be scarce.
This was very much expected, as soon as they were released from custody. After all, Serbia has turned into criminal state, with the mafia at its helm.
In the last 8 years, the ruling party and it’s minions have released many arrested and even prosecuted criminals (murderers, drug dealers, scammers, money launderers, criminal suspects).
Corrupt judges, incompetent prosecutors, bastardization of laws is just another icing on the cake in this never ending cycle of catch-and-release program for the criminals connected to the ruling party or related to politicians of the ruling party. Since majority of the media outlates are state controlled, the public usually has no idea what is going on.
If a criminal is not related to ruling party but has enough money, all he has to do is to pay the so called ‘criminal tax’ and he/she is free to go.
One such example is here: cins.rs/en/investigation-against-bogoljub-karic-11-years-of-waiting-for-witnesses-documents-and-translations/
It also applies to foreigners. There are documented cases of foreign politicians and businessman being granted an asylum in Serbia, even Serbian citizenship, while they were being prosecuted in their own countries: euractiv.com/section/enlargement/news/bulgaria-warns-serbia-over-refusal-to-extradite-banker/
Krstic’s lawyer statement today:
Brilliant. He’s actually worth every penny.
My client will absolutely not flee!
*client released and promptly flees*
It’s my client’s choice to flee! Now leave me alone while I count my totally unrelated bags of stolen investor funds.
Even Bulgaria calls Serbia out?! Jesus wept
Well, simply, it is all well planed. They had help from inside…
One of the arrested and detained starts talking to the media, new names emerge… It starts to unwrap slowly… Should be interesting to see what DOJ says about this staged runner. And the Strasbourg court, who aided the extradition delay process.
It’s been almost 2 months. No info on whereabouts or any other info related to this case, in general.
So all went as planned, obviously. Strange thing is that the Americans issued no statement at all or raised any questions.
Yes. No news at all from the US State Department.
One of the arrested and detained associate captured in the US was confessing about a murder of one of their own.
He mentioned a programmer was ordered to be murdered and executed by Kristijan Krstic in the Philippines last January 2019.
Kristijan’s programmer was also a famous athlete in the Philippines and world class bowler known as Angel Constantino.
It was unfortunate these people was made to escape by Serbia and the European Strasbourg Court without giving credence and Justice to their crimes.
@Jeff Free
Which one spilled the beans, Jaira, Enos or DeMarr? Murder actually happened? News link pls?
The one who was extradited confessed few weeks ago.
Wonder what happened on today’s trial in Texas…
@ S R
According to my source ,It was contained in the statements of Antonije, Miao and David as part of their agreement with DOJ all of whom knew the guy and have personal knowledge of the crime.
All of them are in US custody already awaiting trial. youtu.be/k6r6V3eavXs
@Jeff Free
If that is true, no wonder Krstic fled asap. They claim he organised it on someone’s behalf? Anything more mentioned?
@ S R
Yes,it is starting to unwrap slowly.They needed to flee no matter what the cost.
The other 11 detained criminals apparently have something to say about this also. Hoping the DOJ acts on it quickly since they have the information already.
They certainly would protect their own unless the DOJ and the Feds act fast with regards to their extradition.
@Jeff Free
Don’t believe any extraditions will happen.At least any time soon. Perhaps next summer at earliest and selectively. The ones not important.
A lot of things can happen by that time, like more runners, accidents, etc.
Your source, how reliable is it, given that the info you presented cannot be found publicly yet? Any ties perhaps to Philippines property market e.g. Megaworld buildings, hotels and casinos?
@ SR @ MikeP
My source is legit. If she will have her way she will be answering in similar news forums. But her situation will not allow her for safety and security reasons.
According to her Jaira A. David is not a male but female and a relative of Xenia Atilano Krstic and Jessica Natividad Atilano the Mother of Xenia.
As for their connection with Mega World, According to her, It is better to look for Krstic’s broker from Mega World Yaz Matur an Indian National and known associate in the Philippines.
His counterpart in Serbia is Miroslav Cvetkovic but I guess the authorities missed them when they are looking for the money trail.
They should ask David, Antonije and Miao in Texas to verify.
@Jeff Free
Whatvwould your source say to this: the Mega World property projects, like Venice residency estate that deceased Philippines ex bowler Constantino was marketin, were a money laundering operation by the organised crime group (Krstic and co being only a part of it, but not the ringleaders)? Or the Mega World corp would have its part?
Interesting to see how Krstic and the gang news went totally silent, after so much media attention. As if nobody is looking for them.
DOJ, Texas court:
5/26/2022 Sentencing: Haojia Miao & Jaira David (wander what happened?)
9/8/2022 Sentencing: Antonije Stojiljkovic
Anyone? @Oz?
I have been checking the docket periodically but there haven’t been any updates re. Miao and David.
Not sure whether the May 26th sentencing happened as there’s nothing on the docket to reflect it did.
Could be something to do with Krstic on the run. Maybe we’ll get an update after Stojiljkovic’s hearing.
If they really want to catch the Krstics… just follow the mother and sister of Xenia who is in their hometown Zamboanga city, Philippines.
Rumor has it the mother goes to many banks and withdraws a lot of $$$ to these banks on a regular basis and to top it off the Krstics bought a lot of properties (houses, condos, luxury cars etc) in manila, Philippines before they got caught…
FOLLOW THE FAMILY and the mothers $$$ trail and i bet, the Krstics are in the Philippines hiding in the south!!!
@followthe$$$
This info on Xenia’s mother, Jessica, is true. It is obvious that noone is really looking for them. Which is weird, given that FBI busted them.
Can you give more info, rumors? What about their kids? Still left behind?
Their buddy Yaz Mathur is facing some legal trouble now days…
@SR
The Krstics kids are in southern philippines and this is confirmed to be true. why southern philippines and philippines in general is because plenty of places to hide and relatives there are well off families basically untouchables in that place i hear.
as far as yaz? no info on him.
if they really want to catch them…i am SURE Krsitijan and his wife Ksenija Fej Atilano Krstic is there too.
Confirmed how?
@Oz
Ksenija Fej Atilano Krstics sister karen was given guardianship to her kids when ksenija was in jail and where do you think karen lives?
yes!!! southern philippines in zamboanga city region of mercedes is what i hear.
if the kids are there then, Krsitijan and his wife Ksenija Fej Atilano Krstic MUST be there too…i bet!!!
if you have $$$ and want a legit philippine passport with a different name… its easy.
to get one in the philippines…period.
I don’t doubt the Krstic’s have wound up in the Philippines but all we have is high probability. Not confirmation.
@Oz
NOT HIGH PROBABILITY…IT IS CONFIRMED!!! lets just leave it at that or you should check out the mothers social accts and you will see pictures of the Krstic kids playing in the rain and dates posted…
if the authorities have any bounty$$$ for them im sure someone would talk…
We can confirm where Krstic’s kids are, not the parents.
latest update:
Krstics kids are in Manila with Ksenija Fej Atilano Krstics mother and sister they say the place called tagaytay or paranaque…
rumor is that southern philippines was getting uneasy for them and too many people know them and are scared to stay in one small town…
also, the mother gets calls from Ksenija frequently about what to do…
also rumor is that the mother has the POA to do whatever she can/want on behalf of Ksenijas affairs…
so the looks of it is that, the mother and sister are part of the crypto scam too! TRAIL IS GETTING HOTTT!
This reads like fan fiction without a cited source.
@folowthe$$$
How about you post some evidence like social media profile where such posts can be visible? It is interesting but unsubstantiated…
@SR
What’s your email i’ll send you something.
No email. Make it public.
@SR
How to post photos here? No options.
If it’s an image upload to IMGUR or another free hosting service. Then post link.
@Oz
How to post photo here? no options.
@Oz and @SR
here is one link:
scribd.com/document/538872969/CTS-TOWER-E-5B
that shows the mother have POA over Ksenijas affairs and i will look on how to put photos online without blowing my source.
@folowthe$$$
Yes just post as Oz advised and it will be fine.
Aware of those property contracts, good job thanks.
@Oz @RS
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Boy in green is one of the Krstics kids.
Bday bash for mom, daughter and grand daughter a week ago.
sister Karens FB:
m.facebook.com/people/Karen-Atilano-Bathan/100078509588992/
Mother Jesicca FB
facebook.com/jessica.atilano.399
My source is pretty pissed at this family as he was a victim of their scams too and family as seen in these photos don,t care they go on with their lives lavishly he says.
Thanks. If your source can get a recent photo of Krstic or Atilano that’d go a long way.
Read more at: law360.com/fintech/articles/1571312
Oh they finally sentenced DeMarr. Five years noice.
Krstic’s US case docket doesn’t reflect he escaped upon release. The DOJ has not addressed Krstic and his wife fleeing.
At least something is happening.
Everyday that scammers stay out of prison is a winner for that scammer not dying behind bars.
DeMarr’s case docket hasn’t updated to reflect sentencing. Will check back later in the week.
edit: The DOJ have confirmed DeMarr’s sentence in a press-release. New article out.