The former child advocate, who spent years on the run in Europe and faces two rape charges in Utah, testified that he made up new identities to avoid death threats from two Rhode Island politicians

Nicholas Alahverdian, the man accused of faking his own death and moving to the United Kingdom to avoid rape charges, admitted for the first time in court Wednesday that he changed his name upon leaving the country.

Nicholas Alahverdian admitted Wednesday he faked his death and lied about his identity before fleeing to Europe.

Nicholas Alahverdian gave up the whole lie on Wednesday – the four-year ruse of his fake death, the bogus accent he adopted as Irishman Arthur Knight, the years of insistence before television cameras that he was not a Rhode Island con man accused of what he once himself called “despicable acts.

The international fugitive from Rhode Island who faked his death admits in court he is indeed Nicholas Alahverdian.