No One Wants To Buy Your Fat

by Alex Balk December 2, 2009

The Peruvian police investigator who made international headlines last month when he claimed to have arrested members of a gang who killed people and sold their fat on the black market has been suspended indefinitely after it turned out there was no evidence to support the claim.

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