So, he's not even being investigated in Belize for all the dubious id's he had. 7News has learned that Nanes Shnitzer changed his named to David Banes - basically taking the "N" out of Nanes and substituting it with a "B". Under that name he got a permanent residency card, a Belizean passport, a driver's license for Belize City, a drivers license for San Pedro, a social security card, a boat master's license, and for good measure, even a voter's ID. Basically Nanes had every type of Belize ID that exists - all under an assumed name. Our sources say that the passport was obtained through the immigration Department - back in 201 or 2011, when the backdoor operations at that Department were in full swing.

And - apart from every ID in the book - he also had major land holdings in Belize. 7news has learned that he and his wife, who is a Mexican, owned several properties, including a home on southern San Pedro which was up for sale, a 60 room condo that was under construction, as well as a property in Hopkins, and various bank accounts. When the US Marshalls caught up with him, he was living in a villa at the Grand Caribe resort on the north end of San Pedro. But that's not where they found him, instead they had to go down to a nearby bar named Prates where he was having a drink.

Nanes arrived in Belize four to five years ago - which is right about when the Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme came to light. Stanford was sentenced to 110 years in the US, and Mexican authorities allege that Nanes Schnitzer headed the Mexican arm of his Ponzi scheme, which allegedly defrauded investors in that country of $42 million dollars. Mexico has a 2011 arrest warrant for Nanes for unauthorized securities transactions.