A Perth tech tycoon has been jailed within the US for eight years over a large textual content message rip-off that funded his lifetime of luxurious.
Russian-born former rich-lister Zhenya Tsvetnenko's rags to riches story was as soon as the discuss of the city.
Tsvetnenko went from a cash-strapped college dropout to a multi-millionaire in a couple of quick years.
However behind his success was an auto-subscribing rip-off that fleeced $US41 million from American cellphone prospects.
Tsvetnenko, a serious participant within the fraud, claimed the most important lower.
His greed funded a high-flying way of life mixing with Hollywood royalty.
However even he knew these days had been numbered.
The fraudster lastly surrendered in January, after greater than three years battling extradition.
US prosecutors stated he was "paying a steep value for his cellular rip-off".
Tsvetnenko is now paying again all of the stolen cash and spending 98 months in a US federal jail.
Whether or not he shall be allowed a switch to Australia stays to be seen.