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       Man evades capture for 15 years by using fingerprint implants
   DIR By: Satanica
       Date: February 1, 2019, 11:54 am
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  HTML https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/31/drug-trafficker-evades-capture-15-years-fingerprint-implants
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       > The man, who has not been named, was arrested on Tuesday by
       officers from the national police force in the city of Getafe,
       near Madrid.
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       > In a statement, the Policía Nacional said the man, originally
       from the north-western Spanish region of Asturias, had been on
       the run for 15 years before specialist anti-drugs officers
       caught up with him.
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       > “The suspect had modified and changed his fingerprints to such
       an extent that they were no longer recognisable,” said the
       statement.
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       > “As well as cutting and burning, he had used micro-implants of
       skin. He had also had a hair transplant to avoid being
       recognised.”
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       > A police spokeswoman told the Guardian: “He’d used very
       sophisticated methods to alter the fingerprints of both hands so
       that he couldn’t be identified. He used skin implants to change
       the shape of his prints so that the scars beneath couldn’t be
       detected. It was a very sophisticated, specialist process that
       took place over a number of years.”
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       > The man, who had been the subject of four arrest warrants, had
       used false documents in the name of a Peruvian citizen to travel
       around the world. He had also adopted the cover of being a
       Croatian citizen to avoid being tracked down.
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       > “Officers have managed to ascertain that the arrested man
       travelled to Morocco on numerous occasions over the past few
       months, presumably to engage in activities related to
       drug-trafficking,” said the statement.
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       > “When he was arrested, he was found to be in possession of two
       encrypted phones – the kind of equipment usually used by
       criminal organisations.”
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       > Spanish media reported that the arrested man was an associate
       of the Galician smuggler and drug-trafficker Sito Miñanco, who
       this week was jailed for four years and ordered to pay €6m
       (£5.25) fine after being convicted of laundering the proceeds of
       his drug trafficking.
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       > Miñanco’s lawyer was recently fined €2,000 for vaping in court
       during the trial last November.
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