The husband of an American lacking in Spain beneath suspicious circumstances performed no half in her disappearance and disputes her household’s rivalry that their impending divorce was “nasty,” his lawyer stated Tuesday.
David Knezevich was in his native Serbia when his spouse, Ana, disappeared from her Madrid condominium on Feb. 2 and has been cooperating with each Spanish police and the FBI, stated Ken Padowitz, his Florida-based lawyer.
Ana Knezevich, a 40-year-old naturalized American initially from Colombia, vanished shortly after a person sporting a bike helmet disabled her condominium complicated’s safety cameras by spray portray the lenses. Two of her associates obtained textual content messages from her telephone the following day saying she was working off for a couple of days with a person she had simply met. They are saying the messages weren’t written in her type and she or he would by no means go away with a stranger.
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Sanna Rameau, a good friend of Ana, instructed WSVN that she responded by asking Ana to ship her location however Ana by no means responded and the telephone turned off.
“After we tried to reply, the messages weren’t going by way of and the telephone is off. She has not left on her personal. She has been taken towards her will and by who, I do not know,” stated Rameau.
David Knezevich has been cooperative with authorities, his lawyer stated.
“He has talked to detectives in Spain on a variety of events. He is supplied bank card data … He obtained a lawyer in Spain to signal paperwork that may assist the Spanish authorities go into the condominium that his spouse had rented,” Padowitz stated. “He’s doing all the things that he probably can … from Serbia.”
He stated if Knezevich, 36, traveled to Spain, that may not assist the investigation or search.
“He doesn’t communicate Spanish. He doesn’t have household in Spain. He doesn’t have associates in Spain. He doesn’t have a home or an condominium or anywhere to dwell in Spain,” Padowitz stated.
Rameau stated Tuesday that David Knezevich instructed each her and Ana’s brother that on Feb. 2 he was on the couple’s Fort Lauderdale house and never in Serbia.
“No matter he did can clearly be confirmed by authorities,” Rameau stated.
Madrid police on Tuesday stated the investigation is ongoing, however didn’t launch additional particulars.
Lacking particular person alerts in regards to the lacking American have been seen over 15 million occasions over the previous week, the president of a volunteer group in Spain instructed NBC Information.
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David and Ana Knezevich, who typically spell their surname “Knezevic,” have been married for 13 years. They personal EOX Know-how Options Inc., which does laptop help for South Florida companies. Data present additionally they personal a house and two different Fort Lauderdale properties, a type of presently beneath foreclosures.
Ana’s brother, Juan Henao, referred to as the divorce “nasty” in an interview with a Fort Lauderdale detective, a report exhibits. He instructed police that David was indignant that they might be dividing a considerable sum of money.
However Padowitz stated the couple’s cut up had been amicable and that they’d even talked of hiring only one lawyer to finalize their divorce and divide their properties and different property.
“That they had been having ‘a nasty divorce,’ that is simply blatantly false,” Padowitz stated.
Rameau stated Ana by no means instructed her the divorce was amicable, “however I additionally didn’t participate (in) all their conversations.”