Former World Champion Romans Vainšteins has been arrested in Italy and faces a four-month jail sentence after failing to maintain up with alimony funds.
Vainšteins, 52, was arrested at Orio al Serio airport in Bergamo after touchdown on flight from Riga after his ex-wife, a former resident of Italy, filed a case in opposition to him over non-payment of a kid assist obligation.
According to L’Eco di Bergamo, the Latvian owes €70,000 after initially making common month-to-month funds following his divorce in 2001 and as much as 2009, just for them to develop into extra intermittent to 2012 and stopping completely between 2013 and 2018. That 12 months he was sentenced to a four-month jail sentence and a 300 euro superb, and a warrant was issued for his arrest, however he has but to serve the sentence.
The spotlight of Vainšteins’ profession was when he turned Road World Champion in Plouay, France, in 2000 with an surprising last-minute sprint to the road that noticed him outpace Poland’s Zbigniew Spruch and 1999 rainbow jersey winner Oscar Freire. Vainšteins additionally took 4 phases of Tirreno-Adriatico and one within the Giro d’Italia in 1999 in a profession that lasted a scant seven years.
According to Latvia media outlet LSM, Vainšteins continued working in Italy after his retirement, however in 2016 moved again to his residence nation. He was then briefly head of the Latvian biking group, however stop after 5 months.
