NSW Police was seeking the extradition from the US of a 50-year-old Australian businessman arrested by the FBI overnight in connection with a bizarre extortion attack against the daughter of a high-profile IT executive early this month.
Paul "Doug" Peters was arrested by a heavily-armed FBI swat team at the home of his ex-wife in Louisville, Kentucky at about 4pm local time.
He is wanted for questioning over an incident, which allegedly saw an assailant break into the home of IT executive Bill Pulver. The assailant attached a device thought at the time to be a bomb to the body of Pulver's 18-year-old daughter, Madeline, before leaving an extortion note and fleeing the scene. It triggered a police response involving bomb disposal experts who worked for hours on the device.
Mr Pulver was chief executive officer of voice recognition and linguistic surveillance software company Appen Butler Hill and was formerly global president of online ratings agency NetRatings.
Peters, who was believed to have connections with the Pulvers, was identified as an Australian-born businessmen who frequently commuted between his home in the US and Australia.
It was not known if Peters was involved in the software industry.
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