Andrew Carlssin started with an initial investment of $800 and ended with over three hundred fifty million dollars which drew the attention of the SEC. He submitted a four-hour confession wherein he claimed to be a time traveller from 200 years in the future. He offered to tell investigators such things as the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and the cure for AIDS in return for a lesser punishment and to be allowed to return to his time craft. Interesting, right? What’s more interesting is that no one has been able to debunk this story or find that person again.
44-year-old was arrested by U.S. Federal agents on January 28, 2003, for major SEC violations. What he did was cherry-pick 126 high-risk stocks, invest a combined amount of $800 in all of them, and watch the stocks take off to produce $350 million in two weeks. The authorities were convinced Mr. Carlssin’s achievements involved fraud. He must have had some insider trading information, and Federal agents had to make him spit out the name of his source. He was arrested and then was interrogated for four hours. Authorities were desperate to know about his partners who helped him in the fraud. However, Carlssin, in custody, had a completely different explanation. he submitted a four-hour confession wherein he claimed to be a time traveler from 200 years in the future. He offered to tell investigators such things as the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and the cure for AIDS in return for a lesser punishment and to be allowed to return to his time craft. He is said to have even predicted the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The time traveller said his plan was not to make his stock market success look perfect. He intended to lose some money here and there to make it look natural but was ‘caught in the moment.’ But Carlssin's explanations didn't convince anyone. The people investigating him thought he was either making up stories or maybe even not thinking straight. So, they started looking into Carlssin's background. They discovered something strange - there were no records of him before just a few months before he got arrested. Nobody knew where he was born, who his parents were, or where he lived. He was a ghost.
On March 29, 2003, another mysterious person paid $1 million and had Carlssin released on bail. The hearing of his case was scheduled for April 3. Carlssin’s lawyer waited for his client to turn up at his office so that he could prepare his statements for the trial the next day. But Carlssin never turned up. Nobody ever heard from him again! Some say, the authorities from the future were able to track him down, and one among those future dwellers posted the bail and had Carlssin released. Carlssin was taken back to the future.
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