Aarni Neuvonen

Aarni Neuvonen (born 1953/4),

Scheme Neuvonen published large and eye-catching adverts in mostly Russian-language newspapers on behalf of Inter Work Corporation, supposedly established in the 1930s and headquartered in Jerusalem and Bangkok, offering jobs in hotels, pubs, and factories in South America, Arabia, and Europe. Job-seekers were charged 2335 EEK in advance fees; the fee was supposed to cover costs of a "foreign passport" (a Soviet-era practice long since gone from Estoniq), a visa, airline tickets, and Estonian income tax. At that time, the average salary in Estonia was about 1070 EEK, and due to the aftermath of the crash of the GOSPLAN-governed Soviet economy, joblessness was around 17%. (GOSPLAN's focus was in the military-industrial plants in Northern Estonia, staffed primarily by Russophone migrants.)

Sightings In 1993, Neuvonen, then using the alias Daniil Rosenberg, was reported to be advertising little-used American and Japanese cars for 1000 USD on Ukrainian TV, defrauding hundreds of people out of an estimated million USD.

In 1994, Neuvonen, then presenting himself as a citizen of Norway, was reported to be offering jobs in Europe to poor people in Bulgaria, defrauding about 400 people out of an estimated million USD.

Status Neuvonen was never arrested, and was declared dead due to disappearance by an Estonian court at the request of his wife of hurried marriage, to whom he had fraudulently sold an apartment on Lasnamäe.