Human Fat being sold

Killed For Their Fat!
guy adams

LIMA, 21 NOV: Police in Peru say they have arrested three members of a gang who
murdered a string of peasant farmers, drained the fat from their dead bodies, and then attempted to sell it to European cosmetics manufacturers.
The men have confessed to a total of five killings, but are suspected of dozens more. Police believe they approached their victims on remote roads and lured them to a hut in the jungle with talk of being able to introduce them to a potential employer. Instead, the victims were bludgeoned to death.
Each of their bodies then had its head, arms and legs cut off. Major organs were removed, and discarded, before the torso was suspended from hooks in the ceiling of the hut. Candles were placed beneath, so that melting fat would dribble into pots, pans and other collecting vessels.
“We have broken up a criminal organisation dedicated to trafficking bodily fluids and human fat,” said local police commander Mr Angel Toledo, on Thursday. The large containers of illicit fat were latter decanted into bottles for export, he added.
“Without a doubt (the gang) have committed various crimes like kidnapping and conspiring to commit criminal acts. (They) have spoken about how they committed crimes with the purpose of extracting their fat in rudimentary laboratories to later sell for the price of $15,000 per litre.”
Col Jorge Meija, the chief of Peru’s anti-kidnapping police, added that all three suspects had been charged with homicide, criminal conspiracy, and illegal firearm possession. They face life imprisonment if found guilty. The fat they harvested was apparently to be shipped to Italy, via intermediaries, where it would end up being used in expensive skin-softening beauty creams. General Felix Burga, Peru’s chief policeman, added that there is evidence that the gang was one of several operating out of the country as part of “an international criminal network trafficking human fat”.
Medical experts expressed scepticism at police claims denying, for example, that human fat would be worth $15,000, or that it would have skin-enhancing properties. A dermatology professor at Yale University, Dr Lisa Donofrio, said a small market may exist for “human fat extracts” to keep skin supple, but that scientifically such treatments were “pure baloney”.
However, the grisly nature of the case has caught the public imagination in Peru and overseas. The gang have been dubbed the “Pishtacos” after an ancient Peruvian myth about white colonialists who killed indigenous people, quartered their bodies with machetes, before extracting the fat and turning it into a range of perfumed soaps.
Regardless of their commercial success, the gang seems, at the very least, to have perfected the art of fat-extraction. Two of Col Meija’s suspects, Serapio Marcos Veramendi and Enedina Estela were arrested at a bus stop in Huanuco province carrying soft-drink bottles filled with an amber liquidised substance that lab tests later showed was liquidised human fat.
the independent


Is there no limit to the evilness of the human mind?
It seeems so.
This is the first time I am hearing such a crime.
Killing poor fat farmenrs in Peru and then drawing their fat to sell it in Europe.
But, the European people, who are always moralising the world should also be pulled up and denounced to the world for using human fat.
Is there any shoratage of milk fat that human fat is being used.
The UN which is always preaching to the poor nations should investigate this.
In the meantime I would request people like Partha Chatterjee of Trinumul Congress and Nitin Gadkari of the BJP not to go to Peru.
I would also have advised Amar Singh but he has already lost a lot of fat in Singapore after the operation.
He would be ueless in Peru.