Interpol

Turkish police arrested an Interpol fugitive wanted by Germany in Istanbul as he prepared for plastic surgery under a false identity. Raids uncovered an extensive phone scam network and weapons cache.

Colombian police arrested Israeli-Mexican national Michael Mizrahi at Bogotá airport on an Interpol Red Notice, following a multi-million-dollar bank fraud scheme targeting the United Arab Emirates.

Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic was buried with military honors in Belgrade despite EU warnings, drawing thousands of mourners and highlighting deep nationalist divisions.

The President of Turkey presented Ankara as seeking to turn the region into a "home of peace, security and stability," but at the same time sharpened his tone toward Israel. In another speech, he implicitly accused the Netanyahu government of attempting to plunge the region into instability - and promised that "blood merchants" and "genocide perpetrators" will lose.

The Turkish Minister of Justice announced the initiation of criminal proceedings against dozens of Israelis, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The background for the demand: the events surrounding the interception of the "Sumud Flotilla" to the Gaza Strip.

Superintendent Walter Alejandro Kogan, the police representative who located Meli and Liel Yahalomi on a bus in South America, described the sequence of events: "When I understood that they had arrived in Argentina, I carried out a quick investigation. In the end, a happy ending, and that is what is important."

As we first reported on N12, checks in German aviation systems revealed that the names of Meli and Liel appear on the passenger list of a Lufthansa flight to South America. Austrian police announced: they left of their own volition, there is no suspicion of criminal activity. A senior police official: "The terror motive has weakened significantly." Reconstruction of the movement axis being checked...

The Syrian Ministry of Justice has established a committee to pursue the extradition of senior Assad regime officials who fled the country. The committee will coordinate with Interpol following the death sentences handed down by the local judiciary.

One fled at the last moment to Panama, the other escaped to Israel after the "scam of the century": a dramatic weekend at Ben Gurion Airport ended with two major extraditions. Patrick Bellaiche boarded a flight to Paris to serve a prison sentence for a 280 million euro scam; Efraim Yaniv Moalem was brought from Panama directly to court.