Apparently the Sri Lankan rabbit hole of the former Comverse exec was outed based on a brief VoIP telephone call that he made to someone at his home. Private investigator, Moshe Buller, working on behalf of an anonymous venture capital fund, used the IP information from the call to track down Alexander's location. Local authorities were alerted and Alexander later nabbed in a small fishing village.

Let this be a lesson to you would-be corporate criminals - don't underestimate your friendly neighborhood corporate investigator. And you'd think Alexander, who ran a TELECOM company, would be a little more savvy. Global fugitives can't afford to get sloppy. Perhaps Alexander could have, for example, picked a country to hide in with more favorable extradition terms.

Live and learn. I wonder what important life skills Kobi picked up in that Sri Lankan jail?

-- MDT

Labels: Comverse, Kobi Alexander