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Former Bulgarian wrestler Evelin Banev was facing trials in three countries for money laundering and drug trafficking when he was last seen in public at a hearing in the Sofia Court of Appeals in September 2015.
Banev had been detained in Bulgaria in 2012 and handed over to Italian authorities for a trial in Milan. In Bucharest, Romanian authorities were also requesting his extradition on similar charges.
Then Italy allowed Banev to return temporarily to Sofia in 2015 in order to attend his Bulgarian trial.
That's when he disappeared -- apparently fleeing and going into hiding before the authorities could return him to Italy or extradite him to Romania.