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An Israeli citizen charged with defrauding Chicago area banks of more than $500,000 was arrested in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia Tuesday after a yearlong international manhunt, FBI officials said Thursday.
Rami Rabenu, 38, was awaiting trial on charges that he and three codefendants used counterfeit checks to withdraw money of legitimate bank clients when he disappeared July 9, 2003. He and the three other men had been arrested the previous January after arriving in Chicago with several counterfeit checks, FBI officials said. Rabenu was under house arrest and fitted with an electronic monitor at the time of his disappearance, said his Chicago attorney, Rob Fisher, “so the government learned very quickly when he was no longer home.”
