Nick Alvardian has a new neighbor — see who bought a nearby castle in Scotland

Rhode Island fugitives on the same day last week Nicholas Alvardian refused to board a prison van to attend his extradition hearing in Scotland, Former Utah prosecutor The one who started trying to bring him back was wandering the grounds of his new, nearby castle.

As if the Alahvardian story could get any weirder.

Alhvardian is a one-time child welfare lawyer who faked her death in 2020 to avoid fraud and rape charges. He fled abroad and cultivated the guise of a crazed academic who hit the pubs of Glasgow. Dressed in a three-piece suit and bowler hat. That is until COVID, and then Interpol, caught him in hospital in December 2021.

Instead of keeping his head down, as some extradition experts say would have served him best, the 32-year-old narcissist went on the offensive, yelling about mistaken identity and publicly attacking David Levitt, the Utah prosecutor who sought his arrest. A 2008 rape.

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Alahvardian even partnered with Leavitt’s political opponents last year, working to defeat Leavitt in his re-election bid; Alaverdean has made wild accusations against him from a website he created while on bail in his Glasgow flat.

Leavitt may be out of office now, but probably not out of Alahverdian’s hair.

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How did the Leavitts become owners of Knockderry Castle?

In February, Levitt and his wife bought Chelom Knockderry Fort, A 170-year-old gray castle overlooks a mile-long loch, some 90 miles from where Alahvardean sits in solitary confinement at Edinburgh Prison awaiting his fate.

Leavitt said the purchase of Knockderry Castle was the culmination of a decade-old dream for him and an assistant professor at Brigham Young University who teaches couples relationships.

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“We love restoring old places, and castles are magical,” Levitt said the other day after recently returning to Utah from visiting castles on the west coast of Scotland.

The Leavitts have remodeled half a dozen homes or properties for themselves or for investment purposes, but nothing on this scale, he said.

“So, it’s not our first baseball game, but it’s a whole new league.”

The Leavitts bought the castle with bankruptcy court permission for 1,150,000 British pounds, or about $1.4 million.

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Did the presence of Alahvardians in Scotland influence their purchase?

The decision to buy it didn’t come easily, as the couple shared in a blog they created titled: whatthehelldidwedo.com.

And Alahvardian entered their conversation about whether Knockderry was the right castle for them.

“The question was: Does Nikolas Alvardyan stop us from pursuing it? We came pretty close because the whole thing is not to; we’re just looking to get on with our lives. Then we concluded that if we don’t do it, then Nikolas Alvardyan has some control over our lives. has and he does not.”

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The history of Knockderry Castle and what lies ahead

According to A story in The Guardian Last year, the castle was built in 1850 for James Templeton, a textile manufacturer.

It sits on 7 acres across Loch Long, has six bedrooms, four reception rooms and a number of original features including turrets, stone balustrades and a minstrel gallery. But as the pictures on the couple’s blog prove, it needs extensive upgrading.

“You can spend a lot of money” to renovate, he said, “or a little less than a lot of money.” But their aim is to restore it to its former glory.

It will probably take at least a few years. “Eventually, down the road,” he said, they may live there or keep it as a second home.

According to the couple’s blog, the castle served as a hospital for wounded soldiers in World War II and as a hotel for several years before returning to a private residence in the post-war years.

Andrew Carnegie, a friend of Templeton’s, owner of the castle, was staying at the castle when he agreed to a letter to fund Scottish public libraries.

The most recent former owners lived there for decades until they lost it in bankruptcy proceedings.

What is the status of Alahverdian’s legal troubles?

Reforms should be well under way in June, when Alhvardian’s extradition hearing will finally begin after months of delays. It was adjourned again last week after Alahvardian refused to go to court, lawyers said.

A judge rejected Alahvardian’s claim of mistaken identity in NovemberThe identifying tattoo on his arm must have been inked on his body while he was in a coma.

Utah authorities charged Alahvardian with two counts of rape and a third count of sexual assault. All happening, they say, in 2008.

That same year, two women at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, accused him of sexual harassment. One of those women took her case to trial, where Alverdean Convicted of felony sexual assault and public lewdness. As part of his sentence, he was ordered to register as a sex offender.

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Investigators said the DNA in that case was linked to the Utah rape.

A deputy county attorney is now handling Alahvardean’s prosecution since Levitt left office.

The FBI also charged him with nearly $200,000 in credit card fraud for cards he took out in his former foster father’s name.

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This article originally appeared in The Providence Journal: Utah prosecutors buy Scottish castle where Alahvardian is imprisoned