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Peru’s police chief dismissed the head of his criminal investigations unit Tuesday amid suggestions that officers may have invented a story about a murderous gang of human-fat thieves, perhaps to distract from allegations of police killings.
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.
The allegations were pushed by investigations chief Gen. Felix Murga and Col. Jorge Mejia, head of the anti-kidnapping unit. Gen. Miguel Hidalgo on Tuesday announced Murga’s dismissal and said police are conducting an internal probe.
