Huanuco, Peru News

Peruvian police told an astonished world that a gang of killers melted human fat for use in cosmetics but it may have been the story itself which was cooked up.

Peru's police chief dismissed the head of the criminal investigations unit as authorities looked into suggestions police officers may have fabricated a story about a murderous gang that drained the fat from corpses to sell on the black market.

Peru suspended its top organized crime investigator on Tuesday after he misled the country by saying he had caught a gang of serial killers who acted out an ancient Andean legend and sold their victims' fat.

Police recently announced they had arrested three members of a murder ring who confessed to killing five people, extracting their fat and selling it to cosmetics companies in Europe.

IN Peru, four men are arrested on suspicion of harvesting the fat from the obese and selling it as fuel for European cosmetics.

Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe.

LIMA, Peru: Nov. 20, 2009 Members of a gang arrested the Peruvian jungle has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in international cosmetics.

November 19, 2009 Gang members in Peru face charges of killing people and draining their fat for use in cosmetics, police said today.

A GANG of killers who murdered to steal their victims' body fat have been arrested in Peru.

Featured Article Main Category: Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery Also Included In: Transplants / Organ Donations Article Date: 20 Nov 2009 - 2:00 PST Police in Peru have arrested four people, three men and a woman, whom they allege are members of a gang suspected of killing up to 60 people in order to extract their body fat to sell for thousands ...

A police officer displays two bottles containing human fat while another officer holds seized sticks of dynamite during a press conference in Lima.

Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing some 60 people to sell their fat and other human tissue to Italian co-conspirators for cosmetic use in Europe, authorities say.

Police in Peru have seized about 350 kilograms of cocaine in the mountains to the northeast of Lima, being transported by mules, the Radio programas del Peru radio station reported.

Peru's drug traffickers enjoy profits of roughly $700 million a year and that money is finding its way into every corner of the national economy, a prominent expert said here Monday.

In Peru, protests continued as thousands rallied yesterday in several cities of Peru during a National Protest Day.