Running in fear for his life or just to escape it? A British businessman who mysteriously disappeared from Tokyo last year, sparking speculation of misadventure, has turned up back in England, safe and sound, according to a British media report.

Garin Dart, former CEO of Tokyo-based event management company Bluesilver, vanished last May without a word to his pregnant Japanese wife, Yukako, and their then-4-year-old son.

Friends and the authorities launched a campaign to find him. But according to media reports, police abandoned their effort in July after learning Dart had withdrawn a sizable amount of money and left the country.