Well he was found not guilty in 2006 - but instead of being set free, he was sent back to jail on the strength of an expulsion order signed by then Immigration Minister Ralph Fonseca.

If it sounds familiar - it should - that's more or less what happened with Slovakian Karol Mello last week.

And this morning Oprescu sent us an email with advice for his fellow Eastern European. He says, quote: "Leave Belize while you can."

Oprescu included a self portrait in the picture - carrying a nine millimeter gun in a holster on his side.

He didn't tell us where he is, but in 2004 Oprescu was arrested in Belize on multiple counts of forgery and uttering upon a false document.

And - similar to Mello - there was at the time an Interpol warrant for him in his home country of Romania for fraud.

And so he was imprisoned after his not guilty verdict in 2006 - and held at the Hattieville prison for 45 days.

He says he applied to the Supreme Court to be released from custody so that he could leave Belize voluntarily.

Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh granted his petition and he was released to the Immigration Department where they returned his personal documents minus his passport.

He was then declared a prohibited immigrant and given 3 days to lave the country or face another imprisonment.

And so - Oprescu says - on the 17th October, 2006 he left Belize crossing illegally into Guatemala without a passport.