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Posted: 6:25 p.m. Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Surveillance photos raise questions about missing banker’s story

Newly-released surveillance photos show a missing banker under investigation on the day he disappeared.

Federal agents believe Aubrey “Lee” Price faked his death after leading a multi-million dollar investment scheme.

FBI officials said finding Price is a top priority, offering a $20,000 reward for information on his whereabouts. They are also working with agents in Venezuela, where Price is believed to own property.

FBI agents said the photos show Price as he was making his getaway. He is pictured arriving at the Key West, Fla., airport after a flight from Atlanta, dressed in shorts and a long-sleeved T-shirt. The FBI said Price visited a dive shop and post office before going to a ferry terminal.

“He looks like a fugitive to me," attorney John Chapman told Channel 2’s Jodie Fleischer.

Chapman represents nearly two dozen of the more than 100 investors who lost millions of dollars with Price. Before his disappearance, he confessed to sending fake statements to hide the losses in a suicide note.

“They want to know. They're entitled to know, and I have a lot of confidence in our law enforcement officials that they will track him down and find him wherever he is," Chapman said.

According to an FBI affidavit, “Price told others he planned to kill himself off the coast of Florida by jumping off of a ferry boat."

Witnesses said Price boarded the ferry boat to Ft. Myers, but Coast Guard searches turned up nothing.

"Looks like a guy who's planned this, he's figured it out, he seems to be taking measures to conceal his identity and he's got a bag he's towing behind him, might be packed with investor money for all I know," Chapman said.

Experts question why a man about to commit suicide might need a suitcase. Price also changed ball caps during that afternoon.

“He saw it months off. He perhaps feathered his nest and made some elaborate plans. I understand he was a yachtsman, and may have had his personal fleet help him to escape," Chapman said.

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