INTERPOL issues global alert following mass prison escape in Afghanistan (14 June 2008)

LYON, France – An international alert has been issued by INTERPOL following the escape of nearly 900 prisoners, including convicted terrorists, from a jail in southern Afghanistan.

INTERPOL’s National Central Bureau in Kabul confirmed the breakout occurred after an attack was launched on Sarposa, Kandahar’s main jail, on Friday 13 June in which several soldiers were killed and police officers injured.

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Austria and Switzerland to screen visitors’ passports for Euro 2008 against INTERPOL’s global database (06 June 2008)

France – Visitors to the Euro 2008 football championships will have their passports checked against INTERPOL’s global database of Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) database following Austria’s expansion of access to law enforcement officers throughout the country.

The move follows close co-operation between the Austrian Ministry of the Interior and the INTERPOL General Secretariat to ensure that before the start of the tournament, police across the country had instant access to the database which contains nearly 15 million entries from 135 countries.

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INTERPOL fugitive arrested at Miami airport (01 April 2008)

An international fugitive wanted by INTERPOL for alleged rape and sexual offences has been arrested at Miami International Airport following an INTERPOL-assisted international police operation. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers said they intercepted Amorio Liggori RODRIGUES on 18 March as he attempted to transit through the U.S. en route home to Canada.

Wanted by France for rape and sexual offences against children, the 54-year-old Canadian fugitive was vacationing in the Caribbean when local police recognized him. Close police liaison between the INTERPOL National central Bureaus (NCBs) in Barbados, Washington and Paris ensured that U.S. authorities were notified of the fugitive’s movements and that he was arrested as soon as he set foot in Miami.

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Belgium requests INTERPOL Red Notices for escaped convicts (16 April 2008)

LYON, France – INTERPOL has issued Red Notices - or international wanted persons notices - for two convicted criminals who escaped from a Belgian prison on 14 April.

Belgian authorities contacted INTERPOL’s Command and Co-ordination Centre (CCC) at the General Secretariat following the breakout of Sheptim Murati and Kassim Geibi from the jail in Verviers, which then sent a global alert to all 186 member countries.

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Enhancing border security a main issue for delegation from Bosnia and Herzegovina (22 October 2007)

LYON, France - Bosnia and Herzegovina will expand access to INTERPOL’s database of stolen and lost travel documents to border crossings and the international airport in an effort to enhance the country’s internal security, the country’s Minister of Security, Tarik Sadovic, said today during his visit to the General Secretariat.

'This is a very important project for us, as Bosnia and Herzegovina was one of the first countries to expand access to the I-24/7 global police communications system beyond the INTERPOL National Central Bureau,' he said.

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International wanted persons notice issued for escaped war criminal (1 June 2007)

INTERPOL has issued an international wanted persons notice for a war criminal who escaped from a Bosnian prison on 25 May.

Radovan Stankovic was serving a 20-year sentence for crimes against humanity. He was the subject of a previous INTERPOL Red Notice issued in 1996 at the request of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and cancelled in 2002 after his arrest in Bosnia.

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INTERPOL database helps pin down international fugitive (21 March 2007)

An Italian felon on the run from justice after a violent prison escape in 1981 has been apprehended in Rio de Janeiro. With a criminal history of assaults, kidnapping, manslaughter, possession of weapons and explosives, he was considered a dangerous threat.

Cesare Battisti was arrested, after arranging to meet an acquaintance, as a result of cooperation between Italian, French and Brazilian authorities. Checking INTERPOL databases allowed Brazilian authorities to determine Battisti’s fugitive status, corroborating an investigative link that the French and Italian police had been working on together.

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Burundi puts INTERPOL’s databases to maximum use (03 June 2008)

INTERPOL Bujumbura connected to I-24/7, INTERPOL’s global police communications system, in 2005. Since then, the NCB has populated the Organization’s databases with hundreds of records on stolen and lost passports, stolen vehicles, wanted people, fingerprints, and so on.

Similarly, the Burundi NCB has made effective use of the databases in terms of carrying out searches. In particular, the NCB was quick to start systematically checking all imported vehicles against INTERPOL’s databases prior to registration. This process quickly enabled the identification and impounding of a series of luxury vehicles purchased in the United Arab Emirates (Dubai), having been stolen in Japan.

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INTERPOL has confirmed Thai and Cambodian identification of Christopher Paul Neil as Vico (16 October 2007)

LYON, France – INTERPOL has confirmed the Thai and Cambodian identification of Christopher Paul Neil, a 32-year-old English teacher from Canada, as the man photographed sexually abusing young children in Southeast Asia in images posted on the Internet.

Neil was last seen at Bangkok’s international airport on 11 October arriving on a flight from South Korea, where he had been working. Security cameras documented his arrival at immigration at 15h26.

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Cameroon and Hong Kong win INTERPOL award for fighting wildlife crime (20 June 2007)

INTERPOL presented wildlife authorities in Cameroon and Hong Kong with the INTERPOL Eco-Message Award for 2007 for their role in the dismantling of a major ivory-smuggling operation.

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Cameroon and INTERPOL sign agreement to establish a Sub-Regional Bureau in Yaoundé (26 March 2007)

Cameroon’s Undersecretary to the Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs Adoum Gargoum, and INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble signed an accord, 26 March, establishing an INTERPOL Sub-Regional Bureau (SRB) for Central Africa in Yaoundé.

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Police across Asia break up illegal soccer gambling networks in INTERPOL-led operation (10 July 2008)

LYON, France – An INTERPOL co-ordinated operation targeting illegal soccer gambling across Asia has resulted in more than 1,300 arrests and the seizure of over 16 million US dollars.

During the two-month-long operation, law enforcement officers throughout the region identified and raided 1,088 illegal gambling dens, many of which were controlled by organized crime gangs and are estimated to have handled nearly one and a half billion US dollars’ worth of bets.

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INTERPOL helps smash illegal soccer gambling networks across Asia (23 November 2007)

LYON, France – More than 400 people have been arrested across Asia following a five-month operation co-ordinated by INTERPOL that targeted illegal soccer gambling controlled by organized crime gangs.

Police officers across the region identified and shut down a total of 272 underground gambling dens which were estimated to have handled more than 680 million US dollars worth of illegal bets worldwide.

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Cameroon and Hong Kong win INTERPOL award for fighting wildlife crime (20 June 2007)

INTERPOL presented wildlife authorities in Cameroon and Hong Kong with the INTERPOL Eco-Message Award for 2007 for their role in the dismantling of a major ivory-smuggling operation.

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Joint INTERPOL operation in Central America uncovers hundreds of stolen cars (29 October 2007)

Police in Central America have identified hundreds of cars as potentially stolen after conducting universal checks of their national car registration databases against INTERPOL’s database of stolen motor vehicles.

More than 4 million searches have been performed during the first phase of Operation ‘Huracan’. The hits underscore the global nature of vehicle trafficking, with more than 650 positive matches so far between cars reported stolen in the Americas, Asia and Europe and ones registered in participating countries in Central America.

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 Mobile access to INTERPOL databases helps Croatian police snare car thief (05 February 2008)

A check against INTERPOL’s databases by a police officer patrolling a motorway in Croatia has led to the arrest of a man and the recovery of a car just four days after it was stolen in France.

The officer conducted the search via a mobile unit in his police car after becoming suspicious about a Bentley convertible being driven along the Zagreb-Split motorway.

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Croatian police take access to INTERPOL’s databases to next level (18 June 2007)

ZAGREB – Police throughout Croatia will be the first in the world to have direct access to INTERPOL’s databases via mobile phones and laptops.

Technical solutions developed by Croatian authorities and the INTERPOL General Secretariat mean that any law enforcement officer anywhere in the country will be able to instantly verify a person’s identity, their travel documents or the vehicle they are travelling in.

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No seat belt leads to apprehension of Red Notice suspect (6 February 2007)

A fugitive from Ecuador, a subject of a Red Notice requested by IP Quito and suspected in the death of a prominent politician and two other men, was arrested 3 February in the hamlet of Palenville in upstate New York. According to the Greene County Sheriff's Department, Christian Steven Ponce, 36, of Quito, Ecuador, was arrested following a routine traffic stop for not wearing a seat belt.

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Joint INTERPOL operation in Central America uncovers hundreds of stolen cars (29 October 2007)

Police in Central America have identified hundreds of cars as potentially stolen after conducting universal checks of their national car registration databases against INTERPOL’s database of stolen motor vehicles.

More than 4 million searches have been performed during the first phase of Operation ‘Huracan’. The hits underscore the global nature of vehicle trafficking, with more than 650 positive matches so far between cars reported stolen in the Americas, Asia and Europe and ones registered in participating countries in Central America.

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El Salvador captures murder suspect wanted by INTERPOL for police killings (20 July 2007)

A fugitive who was the subject of an INTERPOL wanted persons notice for the murder of two Salvadoran police officers has been arrested by El Salvadoran police.

Jose Mario Belloso Castillo was captured by the country’s National Civilian Police just one year after he fled the country following a protest rally during which two riot police officers were shot and killed and nine others wounded.

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French police recover masterpieces stolen from museum in Nice (16 June 2008)

On 4 June 2008, French police recovered four valuable paintings stolen in an armed robbery from the Museum of Fine Arts in Nice on 5 August 2007. During the operation, eight suspects were arrested.

All the paintings were included in INTERPOL’s works of art database. The painting by Jan Bruegel the Elder entitled 'Allegory of Earth' featured on the INTERPOL poster of the 'Most wanted Works of Art', December 2007 edition.

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INTERPOL fugitive arrested at Miami airport (01 April 2008)

An international fugitive wanted by INTERPOL for alleged rape and sexual offences has been arrested at Miami International Airport following an INTERPOL-assisted international police operation. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers said they intercepted Amorio Liggori RODRIGUES on 18 March as he attempted to transit through the U.S. en route home to Canada.

Wanted by France for rape and sexual offences against children, the 54-year-old Canadian fugitive was vacationing in the Caribbean when local police recognized him. Close police liaison between the INTERPOL National central Bureaus (NCBs) in Barbados, Washington and Paris ensured that U.S. authorities were notified of the fugitive’s movements and that he was arrested as soon as he set foot in Miami.

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Fourth Rwandan genocide fugitive subject of INTERPOL Red Notice arrested in France (28 February 2008 )

Claver Kamana was arrested by French police in Annecy on Tuesday following close co-operation between the INTERPOL General Secretariat in Lyon, the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) in Kigali, the Brigade nationale pour la recherche des fugitifs - France’s fugitives specialised unit - and judicial authorities in Rwanda.

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Close international co-operation between Rwanda, INTERPOL and French police leads to arrest of yet another Rwandan genocide fugitive (09 January 2008)

A man wanted for crimes against humanity and other serious offences in connection with the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice, has been arrested by French police.

Marcel Bivugabagabo was arrested in Toulouse on Tuesday following close co-operation between the INTERPOL General Secretariat, the INTERPOL National Central Bureau in Kigali, the Rwandan judicial authorities and France.

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International co-operation leads to arrest of Rwandan genocide suspect (18 October 2007)

LYON, France – Close co-operation between INTERPOL, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the French Ministries of Justice and the Interior has led to the arrest of a man wanted in connection with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

French police in Carcassonne in southern France arrested Dominique Ntawukuriryayo, who is the subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice issued on behalf of the ICTR in November 2006. He is wanted in connection with serious offences under the 1949 Geneva Conventions and crimes against humanity.

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INTERPOL co-ordination on three continents leads to capture of Rwandan genocide fugitive (23 June 2007)

PARIS, France - A Rwandan man wanted for genocide and crimes against humanity has been arrested by French police at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris after intense international co-ordination between law enforcement officials from Rwanda, France, the U.S. and INTERPOL.

Isaac Kamali had travelled from France to America in possession of a valid French passport that he had hoped to use to enter the US. However, a check by immigration officials from the US Department of Homeland Security against INTERPOL’s database of internationally wanted persons revealed that Kamali was wanted by Rwanda for genocide.

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INTERPOL database detects stolen passports used to smuggle migrants (13 June 2007)

LYON, France – INTERPOL’s database of stolen and lost travel documents recently helped border police at Lyon Saint Exupery Airport identify as stolen two passports used by a people-smuggling operation to move migrants from China to Europe.

Two Asian women were detained on 8 June after airport officials checked their Japanese passports against INTERPOL’s database. One of the passports was reported stolen in Spain in February 2007; the other, in Japan in April 2007.

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German police arrest Rwandan genocide fugitive subject of INTERPOL Red Notice (09 July 2008)

A check against INTERPOL’s wanted persons databases by German border police at Frankfurt airport resulted in the arrest of a man wanted in connection with the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Callixte Mbarushimana is the subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice, or international wanted persons notice, issued at the request of INTERPOL’s National Central Bureau (NCB) in Kigali for genocide, murder, extermination and creation of a criminal organization.

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Joint INTERPOL operation in Central America uncovers hundreds of stolen cars (29 October 2007)

Police in Central America have identified hundreds of cars as potentially stolen after conducting universal checks of their national car registration databases against INTERPOL’s database of stolen motor vehicles.

More than 4 million searches have been performed during the first phase of Operation ‘Huracan’. The hits underscore the global nature of vehicle trafficking, with more than 650 positive matches so far between cars reported stolen in the Americas, Asia and Europe and ones registered in participating countries in Central America.

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Guinea Bissau requests INTERPOL assistance following major drugs seizure (21 July 2008)

An INTERPOL Incident Response Team (IRT) has been deployed to Guinea Bissau to assist the national authorities following the seizure of a plane believed to have been carrying a significant amount of cocaine at the country’s main airport.

Following a request from the Guinea Bissau Ministry of Justice, a three -person team comprising officers from the Drugs and Criminal Organizations unit, the Command and Co-ordination Centre and the INTERPOL Sub-Regional Bureau in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, will provide support to the National Central Bureau and other national law enforcement agencies in Bissau where the aircraft is being held.

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Joint INTERPOL operation in Central America uncovers hundreds of stolen cars (29 October 2007)

Police in Central America have identified hundreds of cars as potentially stolen after conducting universal checks of their national car registration databases against INTERPOL’s database of stolen motor vehicles.

More than 4 million searches have been performed during the first phase of Operation ‘Huracan’. The hits underscore the global nature of vehicle trafficking, with more than 650 positive matches so far between cars reported stolen in the Americas, Asia and Europe and ones registered in participating countries in Central America.

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A doctor wanted in connection with hundreds of illegal kidney transplants in India has been arrested by police in New Delhi.

Jeevan Rawat, 36, who was the subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice issued at the request of Indian authorities was taken into custody on Sunday 17 February. Earlier this month, police in Nepal arrested 40-year-old Amit Kumar, who was also the subject of a Red Notice for his alleged involvement in the transplants.

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A man believed to be behind hundreds of illegal kidney transplants in India and the subject of an INTERPOL Red Notices has been arrested by police in Nepal.

Amit Kumar, who is wanted by Indian authorities for criminal conspiracy, cheating and illegal transplanting of kidneys was arrested on Thursday evening and transferred to Kathmandu on Friday. Police are still searching for Kumar’s accomplice, Jeevan Rawat.

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LYON, France – INTERPOL today issued Red Notices – international wanted persons notices - for two Indian doctors believed to be behind hundreds of illegal kidney transplants.

The notices for Amit Kumar and Jeevan Rawat were requested by Indian authorities after police discovered an illegal hospital at a house in Gurgaon near Delhi. It is believed that during the past eight years around 500 people were forcibly operated on and their kidneys transplanted to foreign patients in a secret operating theatre.

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Fugitive child sex abuser arrested in India on INTERPOL Red Notice (24 May 2007)

Indian police have captured a fugitive convicted of multiple child sex crimes on the basis of an INTERPOL international wanted persons notice.

Alan Jay Horowitz, a rabbi and child psychiatrist who had been featured on the television programme, 'America’s Most Wanted,' was picked up in Chennai, India after the US State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service office informed Indian authorities of his whereabouts.

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Police across Asia break up illegal soccer gambling networks in INTERPOL-led operation (10 July 2008)

LYON, France – An INTERPOL co-ordinated operation targeting illegal soccer gambling across Asia has resulted in more than 1,300 arrests and the seizure of over 16 million US dollars.

During the two-month-long operation, law enforcement officers throughout the region identified and raided 1,088 illegal gambling dens, many of which were controlled by organized crime gangs and are estimated to have handled nearly one and a half billion US dollars’ worth of bets.

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Iran regional meeting to champion INTERPOL’s Central Asian anti-terror 'Shield' (20 May 2008)

TEHRAN, Iran – The need to harness a pro-active, multi-disciplinary approach in terrorism-related investigations is the focus of the fourth working group meeting opening today in Tehran on Project Kalkan, INTERPOL’s on-going anti-terrorism initiative in Central Asia.

The two-day meeting draws together countries from the Central Asia region as well as from Africa, Asia and Europe and will review progress on the collaborative regional project amongst its 19 core countries. Specific issues under discussion include counter terrorism initiatives and operational cases, terrorism financing and the recruitment methods of terrorist groups.

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INTERPOL database helps pin down international fugitive (21 March 2007)

An Italian felon on the run from justice after a violent prison escape in 1981 has been apprehended in Rio de Janeiro. With a criminal history of assaults, kidnapping, manslaughter, possession of weapons and explosives, he was considered a dangerous threat.

Cesare Battisti was arrested, after arranging to meet an acquaintance, as a result of cooperation between Italian, French and Brazilian authorities. Checking INTERPOL databases allowed Brazilian authorities to determine Battisti’s fugitive status, corroborating an investigative link that the French and Italian police had been working on together.

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Kenya welcomes donation of INTERPOL plane to boost fight against wildlife crime (08 July 2008 )

NAIROBI, Kenya – INTERPOL has formally donated a plane to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to help boost the country’s anti-poaching and wildlife law enforcement efforts.

Welcoming the handover of the Super Cub plane at a recent ceremony at Wilson Airfield in Nairobi, Kenya’s Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Noak Wekesa, KWS Director Julius Kipng’etich and Chief of the KWS Air wing Solomon Nyanjui, underlined that protecting Kenya's diverse plant and animal species was not just an ethical or heritage issue, but also a practical one, with 12 per cent of the country’s GDP originating from tourists going on safari and visiting its national parks.

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Kenya wildlife rangers pursue poachers to curtail ivory trafficking (08 July 2008 )

NAIROBI – Elephant tusks completely fill two rooms of the basement storage facility of the Kenya Wildlife Service. In the raw, it is hard to see why anyone would risk his life to get them, or protect them. They resemble little more than pieces of driftwood.

To the criminals who traffic in them, they might as well be gold – once cut, carved and polished, they become ivory name stamps, jewellery and decorative objects coveted throughout the world

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Lithuania to enhance access to INTERPOL’s databases (22 May 2007)

VILNIUS – INTERPOL is to send a team of experts to Lithuania to assist in deploying instant automated access to its global databases such as Stolen and Lost Travel Documents to all law enforcement throughout the country.

The decision was announced following a meeting between INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble and Minister of the Interior Raimondas Sukys in Vilnius.

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Police across Asia break up illegal soccer gambling networks in INTERPOL-led operation (10 July 2008)

LYON, France – An INTERPOL co-ordinated operation targeting illegal soccer gambling across Asia has resulted in more than 1,300 arrests and the seizure of over 16 million US dollars.

During the two-month-long operation, law enforcement officers throughout the region identified and raided 1,088 illegal gambling dens, many of which were controlled by organized crime gangs and are estimated to have handled nearly one and a half billion US dollars’ worth of bets.

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INTERPOL helps smash illegal soccer gambling networks across Asia (23 November 2007 )

LYON, France – More than 400 people have been arrested across Asia following a five-month operation co-ordinated by INTERPOL that targeted illegal soccer gambling controlled by organized crime gangs.

Police officers across the region identified and shut down a total of 272 underground gambling dens which were estimated to have handled more than 680 million US dollars worth of illegal bets worldwide.

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Mauritanian police arrest INTERPOL Red Notice fugitive wanted for French tourists’ murder (30 April 2008)

A Mauritanian man charged in connection with the murder of four French tourists in December 2007 and subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice following his subsequent escape from custody, has today been arrested by police in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott.

Sidi Ould Sidna was apprehended during an overnight operation in which Khadim Ould Semane, the alleged mastermind of an attack against the Israeli embassy in Nouakchott, in February this year, was also detained.

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INTERPOL issues Red Notice for suspected killer of French tourists in Mauritania (15 January 2008)

LYON, France -- INTERPOL has issued a Red Notice - an international wanted persons notice - for Maarouve Mohamed Habib, who is sought by Mauritanian police authorities investigating the murder of four French tourists on 24 December, 2007.

Habib is alleged to be one of three people implicated in the roadside shooting of the French tourists in Aleg, south of Mauritania’s capital, Nouakchott, which also left a fifth person seriously injured.

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INTERPOL team in Mauritania to assist investigation into murder of French tourists (31 December 2007)

LYON, France – Officers from an INTERPOL Incident Response Team (IRT) arrived in Mauritania on Saturday to provide on-site assistance to local police authorities who are investigating the murder of four French tourists on 24 December.

Ahead of the teams’ deployment, INTERPOL also issued Blue Notices – which ask police in INTERPOL’s 186 member countries to provide information about an individual’s location and activities – for two suspects wanted in connection with the fatal shooting which left a fifth person seriously injured.

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INTERPOL issues Red Notice for suspected drug trafficker (20 June 2007)

LYON, France – INTERPOL has issued an international wanted persons notice for Sidi Mohamed Ould Haidalla, who is sought by Mauritania for drug trafficking following the country’s largest-ever cocaine seizure.

Haidalla is thought to have been the intended recipient of a 629-kilogram shipment of cocaine seized in the country last month, the latest in a series which points to the emergence of a new bulk cocaine smuggling route from South America to Africa.

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Mexico to link its databases with INTERPOL’s in unique new partnership (03 June 2008)

Police in all INTERPOL’s 186 member countries will soon be able to access criminal information from Mexico as a result of an innovative new partnership agreed between Mexico and INTERPOL.

Within two months, Mexico will make its police databases available to all INTERPOL member countries by linking up its Plataforma México (Mexican platform) to I-24/7, INTERPOL’s secure global police communications system.

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INTERPOL issues Red Notice for suspect linked to violent crimes across Europe (5 July 2007)

LYON, France – INTERPOL has issued an international wanted persons notice for the suspect in an armed robbery of a jewellery store in Monaco whom fingerprint examiners at the INTERPOL General Secretariat identified as a serial criminal wanted throughout Europe for attempted murder and other violent crimes.

The Red Notice was issued 5 July at the request of Montenegro, where the man escaped from prison in October 2005 while serving a sentence for attempted murder.

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INTERPOL issues Red Notice for suspect linked to violent crimes across Europe (5 July 2007)

LYON, France – INTERPOL has issued an international wanted persons notice for the suspect in an armed robbery of a jewellery store in Monaco whom fingerprint examiners at the INTERPOL General Secretariat identified as a serial criminal wanted throughout Europe for attempted murder and other violent crimes.

The Red Notice was issued 5 July at the request of Montenegro, where the man escaped from prison in October 2005 while serving a sentence for attempted murder.

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INTERPOL fingerprint match assists US law enforcement in arrest of suspected serial killer in Europe (26 February 2007)

A tip from a New York Police Department detective and an INTERPOL matching of fingerprints has led to the arrest of a man living in Montenegro in relation to the unsolved 1990 beating and dismemberment killing of a widow in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The NYPD detective noted apparent similarities with several European cases while attending a training session at FBI headquarters in Quantico, Virginia. Requesting assistance from federal and international authorities, he sent the suspect’s fingerprints from a 1974 arrest to INTERPOL. After comparison with those in its international database, INTERPOL notified the FBI that it had matched the prints to a man believed to be living in Montenegro.

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Morocco asks INTERPOL to issue global alert following escape of convicted terrorists (12 April 2008)

An urgent worldwide security alert, or Orange Notice, has been issued by INTERPOL at the request of Moroccan authorities following the escape from a prison near the Moroccan capital on Monday of nine people convicted of involvement with suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003, which left 45 people dead.

Thanks to the combined swift action of Moroccan authorities and INTERPOL’s Command and Coordination Centre (CCC), INTERPOL was able to issue a global alert in all of INTERPOL’s official languages within hours of the request being made. Its Orange Notice – sent to each of INTERPOL’s 186 National Central Bureaus (NCBs) – includes the names and photographs of the convicted terrorists, all essential elements to help law enforcement officers worldwide in their search and eventual verification of their identity when located and arrested.

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Moroccan police capture fugitive terrorist subject of INTERPOL global alert (2 May 2008)

Moroccan police have confirmed the arrest of an escaped terrorist who became the subject of an INTERPOL global security alert after he broke out of a prison where he was serving 20 years for his involvement in the Casablanca suicide bombings in May 2003 which killed 45 people.

The fugitive, Mohammed Chatbi, aged 34, was one of nine prisoners who escaped from the jail near Rabat on 7 April, against all of whom an urgent worldwide security alert, or Orange Notice, was issued by INTERPOL following a request from Moroccan authorities. The other eight men remain at large.

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A doctor wanted in connection with hundreds of illegal kidney transplants in India has been arrested by police in New Delhi.

Jeevan Rawat, 36, who was the subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice issued at the request of Indian authorities was taken into custody on Sunday 17 February. Earlier this month, police in Nepal arrested 40-year-old Amit Kumar, who was also the subject of a Red Notice for his alleged involvement in the transplants.

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A man believed to be behind hundreds of illegal kidney transplants in India and the subject of an INTERPOL Red Notices has been arrested by police in Nepal.

Amit Kumar, who is wanted by Indian authorities for criminal conspiracy, cheating and illegal transplanting of kidneys was arrested on Thursday evening and transferred to Kathmandu on Friday. Police are still searching for Kumar’s accomplice, Jeevan Rawat.

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Joint INTERPOL operation in Central America uncovers hundreds of stolen cars (29 October 2007)

Police in Central America have identified hundreds of cars as potentially stolen after conducting universal checks of their national car registration databases against INTERPOL’s database of stolen motor vehicles.

More than 4 million searches have been performed during the first phase of Operation ‘Huracan’. The hits underscore the global nature of vehicle trafficking, with more than 650 positive matches so far between cars reported stolen in the Americas, Asia and Europe and ones registered in participating countries in Central America.

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Joint INTERPOL operation in Central America uncovers hundreds of stolen cars (29 October 2007)

Police in Central America have identified hundreds of cars as potentially stolen after conducting universal checks of their national car registration databases against INTERPOL’s database of stolen motor vehicles.

More than 4 million searches have been performed during the first phase of Operation ‘Huracan’. The hits underscore the global nature of vehicle trafficking, with more than 650 positive matches so far between cars reported stolen in the Americas, Asia and Europe and ones registered in participating countries in Central America.

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INTERPOL to use advanced DNA analysis to identify up to 800 victims of Philippines ferry accident, appeals for extra facilities (01 July 2008)

MANILA, Philippines – Following its deployment of an Incident response team (IRT) to the Philippines to help assess the requirements for the recovery and identification of the victims of the 21 June ferry disaster, INTERPOL is to play a central role in supporting and co-ordinating the Philippines' Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) efforts for the almost 800 victims who perished when their ship capsized during Typhoon Frank.

The IRT team, which arrived in Cebu on 29 June at the Philippines government’s request, includes DNA and DVI experts and a representative from the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP). The team is to work directly under the Philippines National Bureau of Investigation's ongoing disaster victim identification effort in Cebu.

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INTERPOL deploys assessment team to assist Philippine authorities after ferry disaster (30 June 2008)

LYON, France - An INTERPOL Incident Response Team (IRT) has been deployed to the Philippines to help assess the requirements for the recovery and identification of the victims of the June 21 ferry disaster which claimed the lives of around 800 passengers.

The team, which arrived in Cebu on Sunday at the request of the Philippine government, includes DNA and Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) experts and a representative from the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP).

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INTERPOL Anti-Heroin Smuggling Training Centre opens in Russia (18 May 2007)

RUSSIA - A new centre to train police officers from around the world in detecting and investigating heroin smuggling was opened in Russia by INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble and Russian Minister of the Interior Rashid Nurgaliev on May 14.

The INTERPOL Anti-Heroin Smuggling Training Centre in Domodedovo near Moscow will provide comprehensive instruction in combating illegal drug trafficking for more than two thousand law enforcement professionals each year.

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German police arrest Rwandan genocide fugitive subject of INTERPOL Red Notice (09 July 2008)

A check against INTERPOL’s wanted persons databases by German border police at Frankfurt airport resulted in the arrest of a man wanted in connection with the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Callixte Mbarushimana is the subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice, or international wanted persons notice, issued at the request of INTERPOL’s National Central Bureau (NCB) in Kigali for genocide, murder, extermination and creation of a criminal organization.

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Fourth Rwandan genocide fugitive subject of INTERPOL Red Notice arrested in France (28 February 2008 )