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A former Olympic rower and mutual-fund salesman — missing since November 2015 — has turned himself in to police. 
  
 Harold Backer, whose clients have accused him of defrauding them of millions of dollars before he disappeared, walked up to a counter at Victoria Police Department headquarters on Thursday afternoon and identified himself. 
  
 He is now facing two counts of fraud over $5,000. 
  
 He remains in custody and will appear in court Tuesday. 
  
 “It came as a surprise,” Victoria police spokesman Const. Matt Rutherford said. 
  
 “He was safe and he came on his own accord.” 
  
 Backer rowed in the Olympics in 1984, 1988 and 1992 before becoming an investment dealer, most recently with Investia Financial. 
  
 He disappeared Nov. 3, 2015, after telling his family he was going on a bike ride. 
  
 The last known image of Backer came from a security camera in Port Angeles, Washington, showing him riding his bike away from the Coho ferry terminal in the early afternoon. 
  
 In November 2016, a Port Angeles resident told the Times Colonist she had seen him in town two days after the photos were taken. 
  
 Backer wrote a letter to several of his clients expressing remorse for decisions he made that cost them money and taking responsibility for the financial losses. He admitted to running a pyramid scheme and said there was no way he could ever pay back the losses his clients experienced. 
  
 The letter was sent to 15 clients and arrived at their homes within a day or two of his disappearance. 
  
 At that point, the missing person case turned into a fraud investigation, Rutherford said. 
  
 While the total amount is unknown, just two families are out a total of more than $2 million. 
  
 Investia has denied responsibility, saying the transactions were carried out by Backer off their books, under his private company, My Financial Backer. 
  
 Betty and Boris Klavora say they lost more than $800,000. Boris was Backer’s rowing coach in the 1980s and the couple regularly hosted Backer and other elite Canadian rowers for dinner at their Vancouver home. 
  
 Betty said the couple was surprised to receive a phone call from Victoria police on Friday about noon. 
  
 “We thought we’d never see him anymore,” she said. “My husband said he will visit him in jail, look him in the eye and ask him what was this all about. Because he was a personal friend.” 
  
 That’s no longer the case, she said. “We are disappointed.” 
  
 Port Angeles Police Chief Brian Smith said his department had no new information about Backer before reading that he had turned himself in. 
  
 Smith said there was still a “missing person” alert out for Backer Friday afternoon, which means that if he crossed a border, his name would be flagged for police and border officials. 
  
 Missing persons are not arrested, but police are typically notified, he said. 
  
 “The question is: If he turned himself in in Victoria, how did he get back into Canada?” Smith said. 
  
 Backer’s arrival meant investigators scrambled into the early hours of Friday morning to put together lengthy documentation for his telebail hearing the same day. 
  
 While Backer currently faces two charges, that could change, Rutherford said. “Investigations like this are very complex, especially with the amount of investors Mr. Backer had. So it’s going to take some time and that number may change.” 
  
 He thanked residents and the media for sharing information about Backer after he went missing. 
  
 — with files from Andrew A. Duffy 
  
 asmart@timescolonist.com ||||| A Vancouver Island investment adviser who seemingly vanished in 2015 has turned himself in to police. 
  
 Harold Backer went missing after he told his wife he was going for a bike ride on Nov. 3 of that year. 
  
 His disappearance sparked a frantic search on Vancouver Island and in Washington state after surveillance footage showed a cyclist fitting Backer's description getting off the Coho ferry in Port Angeles, Wash. 
  
 Some believed he may have been injured or lost, but the search took on a different tone when investment clients — including several close friends and Backer's brother — received letters from the adviser explaining he had lost their investments. 
  
 Video footage of Harold Backer moments after the Coho ferry docked in Washington state on Nov. 3, 2015. (Port Angeles Police) 
  
 On Friday, more than 520 days after his disappearance, police in Victoria, B.C., said Backer had turned himself in and was being held in custody. 
  
 He's facing two counts of fraud over $5,000 with a court appearance scheduled for Tuesday. 
  
 Officers told CBC News it's not clear why Backer turned himself in and that officials are still investigating where he's been since November 2015. 
  
 In a written statement, the department said financial crime investigators started looking into the My Financial Backer Corporation and Backer himself shortly after the adviser vanished. 
  
 The RCMP and B.C. Securities Commission have also conducted investigations into Backer's conduct as an adviser. 
  
 Past investments 
  
 Backer's former rowing coach, Tony Carr, told The Fifth Estate he'd invested nearly $800,000 with the adviser — money from his retirement fund as well as his wife's inheritance. 
  
 Carr found out Backer had disappeared shortly after the ferry sighting. 
  
 "Another rowing coach phoned me and said, 'Do you know Harold's missing?' And as soon as I heard that, I thought, 'so is my money,'" the coach told CBC's The Fifth Estate in a documentary that aired earlier this year. 
  
 Backer continued to coach rowing after he retired as a professional athlete. (Finding Harold Backer/Facebook) 
  
 CBC News reached out to the Carrs for comment on Backer's arrest, but they didn't make themselves available to media. 
  
 Luke Mills, who started a Facebook page to spread the word about Backer's disappearance in 2015, said he was "shocked" when he heard Backer turned himself in. 
  
 ​"I was happy to hear he was OK, obviously, alive.... As a person with family, it was really hard for me — and a lot of other people — because we just didn't know about his physical safety or state of mind," he said. 
  
 Mills said he and Backer were acquaintances, but that they hadn't spoken for a few years before Backer's disappearance. He never invested any money with the adviser. 
  
 "But the fact that he's back and has obviously turned himself in ... the proof is in the pudding that he's come back to deal with any consequences he may have." 
  
 Backer, who was 53 when he went missing, was an Olympic rower before he went into finance — although he never made the podium in three trips to the Games. 
  
 He returned to Mill Bay, B.C., after retiring as a professional athlete. He lived there with his wife and children until he disappeared. 
  
 With files from CBC's The Fifth Estate and Megan Batchelor |||||
Missing Olympian rower Harold Backer walked into a police station in Canada last week, ending a 528-day mystery—but the remaining mysteries include his whereabouts during all that time, and the whereabouts of the millions of dollars that clients of his investment business say he stole from them. Backer, who was 53 when he disappeared, was charged with two counts of fraud after he surrendered himself to authorities in Victoria, BC, the CBC reports. The last confirmed sighting of him had been Nov. 3, 2015, when he told his wife he was going for a bike ride. Surveillance footage revealed that he had taken a ferry from Canada to Port Angeles in Washington state. The disappearance of Backer, who rowed for Canada in the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Olympics, became a criminal investigation within days after 15 investment clients—including friends, his brother, and his former coach, who lost $800,000—received letters confessing that his business was a pyramid scheme. He said he had lost their money in the dot-com crash 15 years earlier and couldn't get it back. Police haven't commented on where they think Backer spent the last 18 months. Port Angeles Police Chief Brian Smith says his name would have been flagged if he had tried to cross the border. "The question is: If he turned himself in in Victoria, how did he get back into Canada?" he tells the Victoria Times Colonist.