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Samuele Landi
Samuele Landi (21 August 1965 - 2 February 2024) was an Italian computer programmer, businessman, Liberian diplomat and Seasteading pioneer. He founded the Italian telecom's giant Eutelia. His company quickly rose to become the 4th largest provider in Italy, winning contracts related to national defence. Landi's fortunes plummeted in the financial crisis of 2007-2008. In 2008 he was accused of fraudulent bankruptcy totalling $330 million euros. After he became aware of his arrest warrant he left Italy never to return.

In 2016 he was made the Liberian consul general to the UAE, by Liberian president George Weah. He oversaw the creation of the Liberian embassy. In Dubai he created a new company, securephone.ai which sold military grade encrypted mobile phones. He was an IT advisor to the company Blue Carbon, a carbon credit company under the patronage of Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum. Which has secured rights to a land area in Africa larger than the UK, including 10% of Liberia.

Then on 22nd December 2022, Landi bought a 72m shipping container barge and moved out to International waters between Dubai and Iran to create a Seastead. He lived there for over a year until 2nd February 2024, when a storm destroyed his project. Two of the five living on Landi's platform survived. A body was washed on in Dubai, but his lawyer said the results would never be made public. Fuelling rumours in the Italian media that Landi had faked his own death.

Early Life
Samuele Landi was born in Arezzo. He competed in four Paris Dakar rallies.

Ventures
Plug.It Samuele Landi founded Plug.it in 1998, an internet service provider that provided Premium telephone services aimed at both business and consumers. Plug.it provided paid professional services for access to banks data from Il Sole 24 Ore as well as phone services for the consumer market, such as: adult services, horoscopes, weather services and other similar services.

Plug.It grew to a turnover of 217 million euros and a profit of 6.7 million in 2002. In 2003 it had a turn over of 300 million euros a year.

In August 2003, Plug.it acquired for 137 million euros EdisonTel SpA Eutelia SpA, a company founded in April 2000 as a subsidiary of Edison to offer voice services, internet services and data transmission, bringing with it 5,000km of fiber optic network infrastructure. Adding to the 1,500 km already owned by Plug.it. The combination of the two companies brings the group turnover of approximately 600 million euros.

Eutelia SpA

On March 2, 2004 Plug.It and EdisonTel merged into a single corporate entity, called Eutelia SpA. By 2008 Eutelia had a workforce of 2200 and a fibre optic cable network of over 13,000 km.

1 click VPN Samuele created VPN One Click the first VPN on the app store.

Philanthropy
Landi funded orphanages across the Congo.

In the media
The British filmmaker Oswald Horowitz, lived on Landi's seastead before in sank and is making a film about it.