The green card husband of the presumed-missing Hawaiian photographer whose bizarre case captivated the country last year spoke out for the first time Friday — slamming her as a “terrible person.”
Alan Cacace, a citizen of Argentina, revealed details of an immigration scam that may have prompted Hannah Kobayashi‘s mysterious disappearance and return in December, according to the Daily Mail.
“That girl is sick,” Cacace told the outlet — explaining that she offered him $15,000 to keep the scheme a secret, then failed to pay up.
“I thought that after everything that had happened, she was going to do things correctly, but she lied to me once again,” he said. “She’s a terrible person.”
Kobayashi, 31, triggered a nationwide search in November after she suddenly vanished while she was supposed to be boarding a flight to New York — only to be found safely traveling alone in Mexico weeks later.
Kobayashi had been flying with Cacace and her possibly “jealous” ex-boyfriend, Amun Muniz-Miranda, along with the ex’s alleged own green card wife, when she inexplicably left Los Angeles International Airport and went missing, sources have said.
In December, the FBI began looking into the case as a potential green card visa scam gone wrong after the dynamics of the group reportedly soured.
Cacace said he paid Kobayashi $15,000 for a fake marriage in Maui that was meant to get him the green card, according to the Daily Mail.
She later offered to refund him the cash in exchange for him agreeing not to talk — then ghosted him, Cacace told the outlet.
“In exchange for my silence she promised after everything she did to return my money,” Cacace said. “But I see that it was just another of her lies.”
In November, the foursome of fake newlyweds left for New York in order to convince immigration officials their marriage was genuine but things got tense, allegedly triggering her disappearance, the Daily Mail reported.
While Kobayashi was missing, her father, Ryan Kobayashi, 58, died by suicide after trying to find her — a tragedy she addressed in a social media post last month.
“[Life is] such a precious gift.. especially after such loss and pain and suffering,” she said.
“We should all learn to be kind to one another and cherish every single moment that we can because we are all connected.”
In another video, Kobayashi said she was “grateful” for people who devoted “time and energy” into searching for her last year.
Kobayashi said in December that she was traveling alone in Mexico with no clue a massive search was underway for her in the US.
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