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Bad influence €100,000 reward to help locate British toddler ‘kidnapped’ from Marbella by Russian ‘influencer’ mother
match escalators, benches and general background scenery to confirm the Bangkok location. passport. The breakthrough has given new Recent photos uploaded to her social hope to Oliver’s father, a former CEO media appear to place her at Bang- of a UK-based web hosting company, kok’s upmarket Iconsiam shopping from Bedford. centre, rather than in Russia as origi- Thai authorities are much more conally feared by Spanish police. operative in extradition cases than The images show the 32-year-old Russia, which notoriously never exsocial butterfly and her 15-year-old tradites its own citizens. sister at various locations including In an emotional appeal this week, passing a luxury Cartier store. Pugh pleaded directly with his Armchair detectives managed to ex-partner for his son’s safe return. “Oliver needs and deserves to have both parents in his life. “By taking him away from his father, his friends, and everything A YOUNG man found battered to death on ular, to speak with four men seen getting familiar, the only an isolated ‘hippy’ beach has been named out of a car on the night of the killing. one who is truly as 23-year-old Mario Belmonte, the Olive Police have since seized CCTV from hurting is him.” Press can reveal. around Las Negras in an effort to identify He described OlHis bloodied body was discovered at ‘an the suspects. iver as a ‘bright isolated cove’ near trendy Las Negras, in “There are so many police here now – evand active boy’ Almeria’s Cabo de Gata Natural park. eryone is very anxious to find out what who loves cars, Investigators are exploring whether his happened,” said the German family friend. aeroplanes and murder may have been linked to the local The expat source added Mario appeared ‘playing in the wadrug trade, with one theory pointing to a ‘nervous’ in the days before his death. ter’. dispute involving so-called ‘hippy dealers’ “He was planning to go to Mallorca this Chikina finally who operate from San Pedro beach. month,” she revealed. “He had been quite broke her silence Sources close to the victim’s family have nervous and we didn’t know why.” at the weekend told us detectives are interested, in partic- Mario had just spent two months livin a post to her ing at secluded San Pe140,000 followdro beach, which has a ers. long-standing reputation Her cryptic misas a hideaway for hippies. sive justifying her The residents - often actions, started: numbering hundreds, “We have a difmostly from Northern ficult conversaEurope - have lived in the tion to have. Talk old ruins of San Pedro about how scary castle for decades. Loit is when the syscated within the natural tem is against the park, it is only accessible child. on foot or by boat. “We have time, Police have so far not not much, but we commented publicly on have it, to underHIPPY: San Pedro beach is home to a community the case. stand the truth.” of hundreds She continued:
A MISSING British toddler may have been snatched in Marbella and taken to Thailand by his mother, a Russian ‘relationship influencer’. Oliver Pugh, 3, has not been seen since July 4, when he vanished from the Costa del Sol resort. His father, Matthew Pugh, 36, who has sole custody, eventually reported him missing a month later. After a desperate global search, it appears Anastasiia Chikina may have fled to Thailand to avoid losing custody of Oliver, who carries a British
By Walter Finch
VANISHED: Oliver (above) with influencer Anastasiia and (inset) father Mathew
EXCLUSIVE: Cops hunt mystery men over ‘hippy’ beach murder
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“The truth won’t be pleasant for everyone; it often stays behind closed doors, but here it comes out.” Oliver’s father is now offering €100,000 for information about his son’s whereabouts. Chikina was banned from leaving Spain by a Marbella court and ordered to surrender Oliver’s passport - however she claimed she had lost it. Crucially, the Olive Press under-
stands, she fled just as she was about to lose a bitter custody battle. A Spanish court has since ruled his father should have full custody with supervised visits only from his mother. The influencer, though, had already vanished along with other family members, including her own mother Angela Nikolenko. Their Marbella home was later found completely empty, and calls to Chikina’s phone stopped connecting entirely. “Anastasiia ran off with Oliver when she realised she was going to lose custody,” insisted Pugh. Email newsdesk@theolivepress.es if you know the family. Opinion Page 6
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