How a Vintage Vinyl LP of ‘Girl From Ipanema’ Led Police to a Most Wanted Fugitive
ROME—One of Italy’s most prolific fraudsters of the 1990s has been extradited from Venezuela after being tricked into leaving his fingerprints on a recording of the 1960s hit song Girl From Ipanema.
Roberto Vivaldi, who fled Italy after being convicted of money laundering and fraudulent bankruptcy, had been living under a false name on the island of Isla de Margarita off Venezuela, where he was running a vintage-record shop.
During the pandemic, Vivaldi started doing a booming business selling records online, just as police in the Tuscan town of Prato reopened his case to try to track him down.