Rebecca Parrett former vice chairwoman of National Century Financial Enterprises a federal judge in Columbus issued a warrant for her arrest.

Rebecca Parrett who disappeared days after being convicted in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud case likened to the Enron and WorldCom scandals said that she would flee to Costa Rica if found guilty, her son recalled.Rebecca Parrett, 59, a former vice chairwoman of National Century Financial Enterprises in suburban Columbus, flew into Phoenix less than 48 hours after her conviction in March, picked up a two-month supply of a prescription drug at a pharmacy near her home and told relatives she would spend a few days at a bed-and-breakfast.Parrett hasn’t been seen since, and a federal judge in Columbus issued a warrant for her arrest.Her only child, Rob Parrett, recalled a conversation with his mother just after she was indicted in 2006.“She said she ‘wasn’t going to jail for something she didn’t do,’ ” Rob Parrett said in an interview published Sunday in The Columbus Dispatch. She mentioned Costa Rica as a destination, he said.Parrett and four other executives were convicted March 13 of securities fraud and other charges in what prosecutors said was a scheme to defraud National Century investors. National Century, based in Dublin, called itself the country’s largest health care financing company when it collapsed in 2002.Parrett, who faces a prison term that could top 20 years, had given up her passport and was supposed to be confined to her home in Carefree, Ariz., until sentencing. A few days after her disappearance, federal prosecutors alleged the defendants plotted to escape to Aruba on a cruise ship, and the remaining four were arrested.Defense attorneys deny any such plot.Rob Parrett, 41, said he’s worried about his mother. He said his mother has a life-threatening medical condition but he doesn’t know what it is.
“I don’t think she would have taken off without saying something,” he said. “I want to know she’s OK.”If she were going to flee, she would have made arrangements for things important to her, including her three Alaskan Malamute dogs and four cats, her son said. Artwork and jewelry were left in her home, too.Rebecca Parrett told relatives that she was going to a bed-and-breakfast in northern Arizona on March 16, but it’s unclear if she went, said deputy U.S. Marshal Drew Shadwick, the lead investigator in her disappearance. A clerk at the bed-and-breakfast said there is no record of Parrett being there.Shadwick will say little about the search for Parrett except that the investigation is continuing. Her sixth husband, Gary Green, is the last person known to have seen her, Shadwick said.Her defense attorney, Greg Peterson, said he doesn’t know where Parrett is but is concerned about her well-being.Rob Parrett said the last time he saw his mother was March 9, his birthday. She knocked on the guest house at her Arizona ranch estate, where he had been living. She had to fly back to Columbus that morning for the last week of the trial, and she handed him a card and spoke for about two minutes, he said.The card was a serious one, mentioning life’s changes and how they could be overcome. He talked to his mother again, briefly by phone, before her conviction. Calls since then have gone straight to voice mail, he said.