The husband of Ana María Henao, the lady who disappeared in Madrid in February, was arrested in Miami | Madrid News | EUROtoday

David Knezevich, the ex-partner of Ana María Henao, who disappeared in Madrid initially of February, has been detained on the Miami airport for his relationship with the case. The man was from the primary second the principle suspect within the investigation, for the reason that couple was going via a troublesome separation involving a dispute over the multimillion-dollar belongings they managed. He is of Serbian origin and she or he was born in Colombia, though she had American nationality. The two lived in Miami, the place her enterprise had proliferated, till the lady determined to maneuver to Madrid, on the finish of 2023, to get away from her husband.

The nationwide police have reported this arrest, which occurred this Saturday on the Miami airport. The physique factors out that the Interior Attaché Office of Belgrade (Serbia), the FBI and the Colombian police have additionally collaborated within the operation.

Ana María had arrived in Madrid on the finish of 2023, after enduring a number of months of a conflictive separation by which she proposed to her husband to divide their belongings 50/50, one thing that David didn’t settle for. The couple had been married for 13 years. The 40-year-old girl settled in Spain as a result of right here she had a number of mates with whom to begin from scratch in a brand new nation. On February 2, she spoke on the telephone with one in every of these mates a few journey that they had scheduled for the next Monday. That is the final time anybody contacted her, from that night time on she was misplaced.

The subsequent day, two mates acquired messages from Ana María, one in English and the opposite in Spanish. Both shut mates realized from the primary second that she had not written that message, each due to the way in which it was expressed and due to the content material. In the textual content, the lady defined that she had met a person abruptly and that she was going to spend the weekend at her nation home.

On the identical day of his disappearance, the safety cameras of his condominium block, positioned within the Salamanca neighborhood of Madrid, had been discovered sprayed with spray. The lock of Ana María's house was not pressured and there was no extreme dysfunction in her home. Her cellphone was not discovered. In the early levels of the investigation, the case was heard by a violence in opposition to girls courtroom.

The household from the start was suspicious of the responses of David, the lacking girl's ex-partner. At first he didn’t reply the telephone, after which he denied realizing something about her and claimed that he was in Serbia when he misplaced observe of her. His collaboration with the authorities was at all times restricted and from the start he employed the companies of a felony lawyer from the United States.

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