A man accused of faking his own death and fleeing the United States to avoid sexual assault and fraud allegations was convicted of rape in Utah on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported.

A Salt Lake County jury found Nicholas Alahverdian, who has been identified and charged by authorities in Utah as Nicholas Rossi, guilty after three days of testimony. Deliberations began Wednesday.

He will be sentenced in October, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

Alahverdian faces a second rape trial in nearby Utah County scheduled for September.

In 2022 — two years after an online obituary stated that Alahverdian died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma — Alahverdian was arrested in Scotland under the name Arthur Knight.

Speaking with a British accent and appearing in a wheelchair, he denied that he was

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