For the Dubai authorities it could be
the entrepreneur from Arezzo Samuele Landi, formerly of Eutelia,
a telephone, telecommunications and IT company which went bankrupt in 2010, one of the bodies fished out ten days ago by the Emirates coast guard 25 miles from the coast where the manager he had been living for months in the middle of the sea on an artificial floating platform.
It is a hi-tech barge where futuristic offshore urban neighborhoods are tested, anchored in international waters.
The waves brought up by a storm swept away the structure and those who were on it.
Landi, who according to Italian justice is a fugitive - he was sentenced in absentia to 8 years for the bankruptcy of Eutelia, a final sentence - has disappeared since then.
The storm also overwhelmed his test island for a new urban life.
Four, perhaps five people (the number remains uncertain at one) were victims of the shipwreck.
They were all wearing life jackets, two died.
Two others survived because they let themselves be carried by the current, remaining on the surface of the water, without losing energy and waiting for the rescuers.
One survivor met his wife Laura in Dubai and told her he saw him being pulled away in the opposite direction as he clung to wreckage.
On Sunday, Dubai coastguard police verbally informed family members that the fingerprints of one of the recovered bodies matched those of Landi.
Authorities in Dubai have fingerprints because the manager is a resident foreigner.
Furthermore, Landi holds a diplomatic passport as consul of Liberia.
His wife and three of his four children also live in Dubai where the man fled in 2010, the year of the Eutelia crash.
They are now waiting for information from the Emirati police, including the outcome of the DNA comparison with the same unidentified corpse, but with fingerprints that appear to be the same as the manager's.
The genetic result is expected within hours.
"The family members - explains Landi's defense lawyer, Amedeo Di Segni - have only received an informal, verbal communication from the local police on fingerprints. There are no documents, now they are also waiting for those on the DNA".
"I myself - says the lawyer - would need Landi's signed power of attorney to present an appeal to the Supreme Court against another conviction, that for Agile's bankruptcy. A bankruptcy to which Landi is extraneous just as he is not responsible for that of Eutelia ".
Agile was an IT company of the Eutelia group, which also had sensitive equipment from the Italian State among its customers, and which in a moment of difficulty was acquired by a company, Omega, led by other entities.
But Agile failed and Landi was also investigated for this crash.
"The appeal to the Court of Cassation must be presented by 17 February and notified to 800 civil parties, if it is not done immediately it will not be done in time", said the lawyer Di Segni, who is also very worried from a human point of view for the fate of the 'entrepreneur.
"I don't have power of attorney for him, I don't even know if he is dead or missing, but I can't abandon the client either", says the lawyer who has also consulted with the professional association on how to protect the case.
"Samuele Landi has always considered himself an exile, not a fugitive", pointed out the lawyer Di Segni.
The defense has always maintained that Eutelia's collapse was due to the Revenue Agency's incorrect assessment of the Arezzo company's debts to the tax authorities for a sum of around half a billion euros.
Samuele Landi had claimed that he tested offshore platforms in international waters also to give people a place to not pay taxes to an autocratic state.
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