“We were heading to Valencia where everybody would lose our trail,” Homm wrote. “Thereafter, moving the cash to Colombia would get a bit sketchier.”

Homm’s travels since 2007 aren’t detailed in the FBI affidavit. The U.S. is seeking access to a Swiss bank account in his name. Homm’s diplomatic passport issued by Liberia has expired, the FBI said.

In a motion filed in the SEC case to set aside a default ruling issued against him, Homm said he didn’t have a permanent residence. He also said the Swiss were investigating him for alleged money laundering and that he had met last year with prosecutors in Lausanne. He said he hadn’t been charged with any crime in Switzerland.

Homm said in his book that he had the diplomatic passport because he was the cultural attache of the Liberian delegation to UNESCO in Paris.

Castles, Nightclub

In excerpts from the German original of his book, “Kopf Geld Jagd,” posted on the Amazon.com German website, Homm describes himself as a “baby magnate” who was worth about half a billion dollars. He said he owned castles and a nightclub on Palma de Mallorca’s promenade and rubbed shoulders with celebrities including Michael Douglas and Boris Becker.

Homm helped rescue publicly listed German soccer club Borussia Dortmund from bankruptcy. The team won Germany’s league championship last year and currently ranks second after Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, the country’s top-tier competition.

Absolute Capital in 2007 was also invested in German companies TUI AG and Freenet AG.

When he left Mallorca, Homm wrote, he packed the cash around his waist in the very tight Calvin Klein underwear he was wearing and on both sides of his genitals. The money added about 5 centimeters (2 inches) to his waist size, making him look like the “Michelin man,” Homm said, referring to the tire company’s advertising cartoon figure.

Homm said in the book that he did reach Cartagena, a beach resort city on the Caribbean coast dating back to the Spanish colonial era.

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