Carl Freer
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Carl Freer (born 9 May 1970) was a director of Gizmondo Europe which went bankrupt in February 2006.
Freer first came to the attention of the Swedish authorities in 1988, when he was arrested for the forgery of his parents' signatures in order to obtain fraudulent loans [1]. He was suspected of several later crimes of a similar nature but no positive case was ever brought against him until 2005, when he was arrested for check forgery in Stuttgart, for which he was fined the sum of $240,000 and sentenced to 18 months probation.
Mr. Freer has been operating together with Stefan Eriksson since 2000. As of 7/6/2006 Stefan Eriksson is in jail awaiting further court proceedings (for these events, see the Stefan Eriksson article).
Mr. Freer was briefly arrested on April 26th, 2006 by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on suspicion of impersonating a police officer in order to purchase a .44 Magnum revolver. Freer has yet to be charged by the Los Angeles District Attorney and claims to be the victim of a "misunderstanding". However, his yacht has disappeared from its mooring at Marina del Rey, and his Bel-Air residence is understood to be on sale for £6.5 million.
