Well...so far I can find two things that occurred. Toward the fall (Sep) his name started to come up in the news...leading back to the two Trump campaign guys who might have fallen for his ‘leaking’ to them.
The second thing is the purge of Saudi princes occur right around this period (maybe within a week). So he’s last seen in Rome, and according to folks who follow him....that’s it...the trail is cold.
I might go and suggest that he was some money-filter player into the Saudi empire banking system, and the princes....leading outsiders (maybe Russians, maybe the Iranians) in for money-laundering. If the princes were disestablished or arrested/detained....his entire network would have collapsed.
With his banking episode in the late 1980s...it seemed to be built for money-laundering. Then he got out of the personal running of this. My guess is that he had clients, and led to other countries where you could launder your cash and be clean.
I don’t think you will ever see this guy again.
Thanks again for one of your excellent history lessons:
Along with Mifsud.
“Earlier this week, Buzzfeed News reported on the mysterious case of Joseph Mifsud, the university professor and foreign policy expert who reportedly acted as a conduit between Trump campaign staff and the Russian government during the 2016 US election.
Last October, Mifsud was referred to — though not by name — in a US court document, which confirmed that former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos had met with him while living in London.
The document said Papadopoulos told FBI agents about meetings with Mifsud, during which he was made aware of “dirt” on Clinton, then Trump’s rival for the US presidency.
But since his name was revealed in the press, Mifsud has gone silent. His bio was removed from a university in Scotland and another institution in Italy where he previously taught. They now show ‘404 Not Found’ error pages.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/where-is-joseph-mifsud-professor-in-russia-probe-2018-3