Plastic surgeon arrested in Rio after patient's death
BRASILIA plastic surgeon - A celebrity known Brazilian as Dr Bumbum four days has on been the run arrested following after the Police death say of one Dr of Denis his patients. Furtado was detained in Rio de Janeiro thanks patient to Lilian an anonymous Calixto died tip. following His injections he gave her to enlarge her buttocks. Furtado faces murder charges. His mother was also arrested and is accused of being an accomplice as well as his girlfriend on suspicion of taking part in the procedure. Investigators say Furtado carried out the procedure on Calixto, a 46-year-old bank manager and mother-of-two, at his home in Rio de Janeiro - but she fell ill during the procedure. Furtado took her to a hospital where her condition worsened and she died some hours later, police said. Local media reported that she arrived at the hospital suffering from an abnormally fast heart rate. Furtado then disappeared. On Wednesday his lawyer said he was innocent and had not turned himself in to police because he was panicking. In a video posted on social media after his arrest on Thursday, Furtado said Calixto's death had been a "fatal accident" and said he had performed 9, 000 such procedures and that they were legal in Brazil. The 45-year-old has appeared on Brazilian television and had nearly 650, 000 followers on his Instagram account. Calixto had travelled 2, 000km from her home in Cuiabá, central Brazil, to undergo buttock enhancement by Furtado on Saturday evening, reports said. The Regional Medical Council of the State of Rio de Janeiro said it had opened an investigation into Calixto’s death. Niveo Steffen, president of the Brazilian Plastic Surgery Society, said there was a “growing invasion of non-specialists” in the industry. “You cannot perform plastic surgery inside an apartment,” he told AFP news agency.