I will be posting results after the weekend,he has been in touch via e mail,talking a load of rubbish. will keep you all posted as to what is next Thank you Sany
Hi. I have read post on "polish forums .com .Looking for missing people. As I am one of Sobotas victims also , I have tried to check a little about him. He bought the company some years ago from the Norwegian man: Fred Francke phone here in Spain 67020200 I have also been in contact with a Norwegian guy , that claims to have bought 4-5 cars from Sobota without any problem. Hi lives part time in Spain and in Norway His name is Tore Kjøstvedt ,Norwegian Cell phone:0047. 92454700. They both might have some info. about Sobota.
Nertz Thats very interesting,sorry for the delay but I have been away. So Far,Arak has been in contact via e mail stating that he knows he has done wrong,basically apologising and promises to pay the money he owes for the car back from his new venture!!!
I told him I will inform Interpol if the money is not given to us and will also send his police report to all his and his wifes family,he seemed to get rattled and said please dont do this as it could cost him his new business and then we wouldnt get a penny.
Someone must have told him that I sent the details to a few of his friends and family via face book,I am waiting to hear from him again and have kept all his ramblings on file.
Maybe, Tore Kjøstvedt ,knows where our Porsche is? I will keep looking,maybe try Norway as I dont think I contacted the garages there.
Thank you so much for your time and I hope we both get what we are owed from this thief. Regards Sany
Hi there searches have shown up nothing Im afraid,but the Police are not being very informative. It is a Porsche 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet 2002 plate number 3387 CCH, Grey/silver with Black leather interior. I will not give up on this.
Sany, you might want to focus on the insurance company: the car was taken from you by deception while you still had insurance. You are very very very unlikely to get the car back and I don't fancy your chances of getting much cash out of the thief either.
I know that the insurance company don't want to pay out, but insurance companies never want to pay out.
Many insurance companies will not pay out if you don't have both sets of keys for the car, I would guess in this instance Sany gave both sets of the keys to the seller. Furthermore Sany, has a contract with the seller ( Spanish Ltd) to sell the car on his behalf. My understanding of this case is Sany is in dispute with the Spanish Ltd company and its directors. Sany, may want to consider selling the debt to a private collection agency in Poland.
Oh wow never thought of that, will look into after the weekend,another avenue to go down,we have one set of keys here and we also have the hard top as he said he'd pick the up from us!!
makes me sad when I go into the spare room and the tops just sitting there,bugger.
Thank you Sany
Just googling agency's now,but,if any one knows of a reputable one,I'd be very grateful
Hi . A reply to your answer 17 of June. Do not for a second believe that Sobota will ever pay you one euro.He might have a new business, but him telling you it will ruin his new business if you were to go public is bull ****.
On the contrary if I had the power and possibility to ruin him , once and for all, I gladly do so!!!And his wife and his son!!( who also was working at the auto shop)
So I wish you all the best in you chaise for Sobota and family. As far as I know he also owes money to some Russian people, so time will show...........
Hi Nertz Thanks for the reply,I think I am chasing a dream like you said,but,I intend to do everything I can in getting justice,one way or another.
Yes he does owe some Russian people money,Im surprised they havent found him yet,as I know he is still in Poland as we have traced his e mail address.
I also hate his wife and sons as I believe they also knew what he was doing. Soon I am going to the Polish media about this scum. Lets hope he gets what he deserves
Regards sany
THIS IS WHAT I WROTE TODAY TO A NATIONAL PAPER IN POLAND
Dear Mr Crawford
I am writing to you to warn your readers of having any details of Arkadius (Arak) Sobota and his wife Marzena Sobota. They are wanted by the Police in Altea,Spain for fraud,theft of high end vehicles and other crimes. We have been a victim as they have stolen our car,it vanished over night from the garage Autoviva Altea,which Sobota owned,he also stole other Porsche's and high tailed it back to Poland,Krakow area we think.
He has since wrote to me via e mail saying he was sorry !!!!! I know he is trying to set up another business over there and I'm warning others so as they don't get conned as well.
The Police here are not that interested because he has left Spain. I have all documentation to support my claim and have met another person on a Polish forum who has also been robbed.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require further information
Just to let you know that my partner was a victim of the lovely Mr. Arek sobota too.
I could write you a novel on the activities, excuses and web of lies spun to us. We spent many interesting hours sitting on his "exquisite" green velour sofas outside his office waiting for the next load of bull.....!! which was to emerge from his mouth.
i.e...has got a new partner of German Swiss origin.......guy putting money into the business.......starting up new company and will dissolve Auto Viva!!! blah blah....etc etc.....Wont bore you with it all.
However, we were in the position of purchasing a vehicle from him, of which a contract was signed on 12 June 2012 for the purchase of a BMW M5. On the 29th June the car was seriously misfiring and 5 litres of engine oil was put in as all the oil seemed to have "disappeared from the engine!!! Sunday 8th July more oil is added to the engine and on Monday 9th July was taken to Autoviva accompanied by one of his "mechanics". We were told there was a problem with the sparkplugs!! ha ha (sparkplugs???? new engine more like).
The excuses flowed on and on, until eventually we were told that the car had "blown up!!!" and would we like to select another one!!!!
To which the reply was no thank you.......So the position is with us........No Car!!! as requests were made to return the money, but of course that is never going to happen. He wrote me a cheque for 2000 euros as he said that he could only pay back in instalments until the deal had been completed with his new partner. As you can imagine, the cheque was worthless and the account no longer exists.
I did some research with the local postie in the area and she gave me an address of Partida El Planet 98,......03590 El Planet, Altea, which basically is at the back of the garage Auto Viva. The house is large and completely deserted and looks like someone has left in a hurry (he told me he owned it!! ha ha).....Letters in the post box indicated that he owes money to vodaphone etc and also uses the name Arcadios Rafael Deusch.
I don't know if you know, but he has big connections with Germany as I believe he was born there and he certainly has a German passport. This house was obviously rented and I was informed that there is an office in Altea called the Rejitro de le propiedad who can tell you who owns the house without charging a fee!!....If the proprietor can be located then maybe it can be ascertained which agency it was rented through and they should have a passport number.
I hope this information is of interest to you, I am so mad that he has got away with so much, whilst he and the wife were swanning around the garage in all their designer finery.....................stealing money and cars off decent, honest and hard working people.
Just a question.......is the e mail address the same as on the business card of Auto Viva?....i.e arkadius@wanadoo.es??...I expect not...If so can you let me have the address, so that I can write to him with a view to maybe getting a reply with all the normal crap that comes with it...thanks.
He wrote again to me last week,here is the mail,I have just realised he is now sending mail from another e mail address ie wiaraas@aol.de
Buenos dias. Me voy a poner en contacto con Usted los proximos dias.Estoy ahora mucho en camino para solucionar varias cosas para funcionar en el futuro!
Gracias por entenderme! Saludos cordiales.Arek.Todo va bien para futuro.
The other e mails came from Poland but I will check and see if he is writing from Germany now,interesting what you wrote about his German connections,I hope that he gets his goolies twisted off by us or maybe the Russians,but,its gone quite now so who knows.
I will keep you posted on anything else I find
Regards sany
PS,Did you report it to the police and get a bajo (sp?) on him,we went to the Altea Police and then had to go to Alicante to denounce him and obtain the bajo.
In reply to your question......the answer is no. We did not report it to the police in Altea or obtain a Bajo, as when I told him that was what I intended to do he didn't seem at all bothered as I suppose there were plenty more bajas against him!!
Like you mentioned before, the police don't seem particularly bothered and it is just one of those useless procedures that we find ourselves doing to no avail!!...It just seemed a pointless excercise to jump through the hoops for absolutely bugger all and incur more expense.
I have a German friend here who has a company in construction and from what I can ascertain has big contacts in Germany. I am meeting her on Saturday to ask her if she can maybe shed some light on how we go about twisting off his goolies!!.....She weighs about 85 kilos and is a serious bodybuilder. .........So if the Russians don't get there first, I certainly would not want to come up against this lady!!!
I understand why you didnt report it,we have heard nothing but I know of at least one other person who has taken legal advise,it will more than likely take years and she may or probably will spend a packet and get nothing back.
After the weekend I'll trace the e amil address and let you know where it came from. Hope your German friend can help,I was thinking of joining a german forum,much like I have here,to see if anyone can help,but,as I dont speak German,it may be hard.
OK off to Mercadona,catch up after the weekend,have a nice one.
regards
sany
Hi OG
Traced his e mail to Baden/Wurttemberg,city location Lorrach Germany, what did your friend have to say,any ideas? Think we are turning into great armchair detectives LoL Hope you had a great weekend speak soon
Great detective work on tracing the e mail address, I will certainly pass this on to Sabrina, my german friend.
She has a friend who specialises in tracing people and she text him a message on Saturday when I met her. She tells me that as soon as she has any information for me she will let me know immediately.
Sometime this week she is coming to my house and I am going to show her all the paperwork I have on this stinking little git and with the e mail address you have provided me with, she is going to e mail him in German to let him know that he will "get it large" from the German authorities unless we see some results!!!,,,,She tells me that Germany is probably the worst place to try and hide as the Germans don't take to this type of behaviour. Unfortunately, the stigma is still attached to the fact that they nicked a load of gear from the jews during WW2 and always want to be seen to be very correct (her words!!) ha ha.
I know his passport is German and obviously he speaks it fluently, so a word in his "shell like" in german may just rattle him a bit. I will also get her to mention that we will be contacting his "friends" on facebook and maybe "star burst" a tonne of garages in his area with some very unhelpful publicity......
Just a quickie.....just doing some research on your e mail address.
It was interesting to see that Lorrach Germany is tucked away to the south west and borders Switzerland. The nearest airport being Basle, the only point being is that amongst the blah blah ******** was this mention of a Swiss partner (probably a load of old bull...), but he mentioned that he was from Zurich, which is just probably a couple of hours drive from Lorrach.
He probably made up the story in his own mind and stuck to it as something that was really going to happen (not). However, I just find that it is intriguing that I was given so much detail considering he is holed up somewhere near the Swiss border.
I found the name of his so called partner,as I wrote to him on face book
"Dear Mr Burri We are trying to locate a Erich Roland Burri ,I believe you may know him or his whereabouts,we need to talk to Mr Burri in relation to his business partner Mr Arak Sobota formally of AutoViva Altea"
I had no reply but we have another name maybe,I also had a phone number for him,which unfortunately,my phone hasn't held,I do remmebr calling it though and got no reply,I also left a voice mail expressing the seriousness of my request,still nothing !!!!
So maybe there was something in it,who knows,the number was indeed a Swiss mobile,I remember that much.
Ok,keep up the good work,its irionic that I feel comforted having another person on my side,I have felt really low about all this,but,you have really perked me up,so,for that, a big thank you and sorry you are in the same predicament..
speak soon regards sany
Unfortunately, the stigma is still attached to the fact that they nicked a load of gear from the jews during WW2 and always want to be seen to be very correct (her words!!) ha ha.
Just checking in with you to see if you have anything new??
I spoke to Sabrina and she said that the only way to denounce him is that everyone has to sign an agreement that one person (or as many as you like) goes to Germany and denounces him to the police with everybodys signature, then he has serious problems because he has got a German passport (mind you who is to say that he aint got a Polish one tucked away either!!)
Not really exciting news, but I did get a stupid reply in Spanish from that Wiaraas e mail address.....this was quite a while back and it has all gone quiet. The e mail basically said that he is a "good" person and would never steal from anybody blah blah, all the normal bull!!!....he was trying to work his way out of this situation that he "finds" himself in for the sake of his crappy family and we will have to be patient as there is no time scale. However, he has a solution to all the problems and it all takes time.
Now......have you ever heard such a load of .........!!!!!!!! in your life........are we supposed to feel sorry for the little worm????
Hope you are having a good weekend and perhaps speak soon.
Hi EG I got another e mail from the pratt ,saying his usual rubbish but this one said he couldnt pay back any money and heion and in trouble with his family bla bla bla
So ,I am going to blitz the german forums and write to anyone that I can think off and send his photo of him and his scabby wife,it may not do much,but at least I'll feel better LOL.
Will let you know how I get on and if I get any replies. speak soon take care sany x
I sent you at 10.10 an e-mail to your private address with detailled information where the Sobotas are living now and what they do. I asked you what I should do now. I could go to to the local police with my information but I have not got any answer from you. Is that topic not longer of interest for you?
Was just reading the post from Bugs bike in Germany.
Very interesting to see that he has managed to locate the little weasel and his scabby family. I was wondering if you would let me know where they are and what they are up to. Probably scamming someone else, but who knows. You can run, but in this day and age it is very difficult to totally hide, especially if you are up to no good again!!
Just wanted to give you some information that I heard today (Wednesday 23rd October).
A friend of mine phoned me this evening and told me that he had heard from a German biker guy that the little weasel Arek had been kicked out of Germany and he thinks that he has arrived back in Spain.!!!!!
I have no further information for you, but I thought it was interesting that the German authorities were not interested in harbouring the little worm in their country.