0:00:03 > 0:00:05- Come on!- On the run... - Get back here!
0:00:05 > 0:00:06..and over here.
0:00:06 > 0:00:08Hands out now. Hands out.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11When foreign criminals flee their home countries,
0:00:11 > 0:00:12many hide out in the UK...
0:00:12 > 0:00:13Give me your hands.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16..but if they think they're safe, they're wrong.
0:00:16 > 0:00:18They know they're wanted.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21A lot of these people are waiting for that knock on the door.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24But the traffic in fugitives isn't all one way.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29Across Europe there are hundreds of British criminals
0:00:29 > 0:00:32also trying to escape justice.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34From the sun-drenched Costas,
0:00:34 > 0:00:37to the busy streets of the Dutch capital...
0:00:37 > 0:00:38GLASS SMASHES
0:00:38 > 0:00:41..this is how the police take down the fugitives...
0:00:41 > 0:00:44You're under arrest under the Extradition Act.
0:00:44 > 0:00:45Police Officer!
0:00:45 > 0:00:48..both at home and abroad.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57On today's programme,
0:00:57 > 0:01:00the Metropolitan Police are up against it,
0:01:00 > 0:01:03trying to identify a suspect accused of killing a man
0:01:03 > 0:01:06and shooting a policeman in Brazil...
0:01:06 > 0:01:07There was no identification material.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10Brazil would not send us a photograph of him.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12We didn't have any fingerprints for him.
0:01:12 > 0:01:16..the millionaire ostrich farmer turned drug smuggler,
0:01:16 > 0:01:19who travelled the globe to escape the law...
0:01:19 > 0:01:22I've always maintained that Martin Evans would be a millionaire,
0:01:22 > 0:01:24by hook or by crook.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27Unfortunately, he decided by crook.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31..and police in Yorkshire have a surprise for a violent robber
0:01:31 > 0:01:34who dodged jail in Poland...
0:01:34 > 0:01:35I've got some bad news for you.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37There's a warrant been issued for your arrest.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Just put these handcuffs on.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46London is home to nearly nine million people.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50Hidden amongst them, fugitives from across the world.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53It's the job of the Met's Extradition Unit to find them.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57This morning a team of detectives
0:01:57 > 0:02:00are heading to the east of the city
0:02:00 > 0:02:02in search of a man wanted for murder,
0:02:02 > 0:02:04but all they have to go on is his name.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Francisco dos Santos is wanted in Brazil
0:02:08 > 0:02:10where he is accused of murdering
0:02:10 > 0:02:12a man and attempting to murder
0:02:12 > 0:02:17a police officer back in November 1994.
0:02:17 > 0:02:18A police officer is alleged to have
0:02:18 > 0:02:21come across a drugs deal taking place
0:02:21 > 0:02:23in a hotel where dos Santos
0:02:23 > 0:02:26was working - and in the course of the struggle,
0:02:26 > 0:02:31dos Santos is accused of taking the police officer's gun from his belt
0:02:31 > 0:02:32and shooting him.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Pete thinks this is the home of the suspect,
0:02:36 > 0:02:38but there's no answer at the door.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41Hello?
0:02:41 > 0:02:46Unlike the rest of the street, this house seems to be unoccupied.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50If you look along, windows open, quite a warm evening.
0:02:50 > 0:02:55Windows open on every house here, really.
0:02:55 > 0:02:56But not on this one.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Then just as the team are about to give up,
0:03:00 > 0:03:02they hear a sound from inside the house...
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Someone's coming.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11Sorry to trouble you, sir. Good morning.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Did you hear us knocking at all?
0:03:13 > 0:03:15..but Pete has a problem.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18He's got no idea what the suspect looks like.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20There was no identification material.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22Brazil would not send us a photograph of him.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24We didn't have any fingerprints for him.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26One of the considerations when we knocked on the door
0:03:26 > 0:03:28was who was going to come to the door?
0:03:28 > 0:03:29Were we going to be given access
0:03:29 > 0:03:31to speak to other people that live there?
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Was it going to be dos Santos himself that came to the door?
0:03:34 > 0:03:35I'm Pete Rance.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38I'm a detective sergeant with the Metropolitan Police Service.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Can you tell me your full name, please?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44And what's your date of birth, please?
0:03:44 > 0:03:47In this particular case it was, and we spoke to him
0:03:47 > 0:03:50and were able to ascertain that he was the person
0:03:50 > 0:03:51that was wanted in Brazil.
0:03:51 > 0:03:5330th of November 1994,
0:03:53 > 0:03:57you're accused of murdering this man, Mr Andrade.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01- Do you know that? Did you know you had a problem in Brazil?- Yeah.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04You know about it? OK. Because I've got a warrant for your arrest,
0:04:04 > 0:04:05you're under arrest on that warrant.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07You do not have to say anything, but anything you do say
0:04:07 > 0:04:09may be given in evidence.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11- Do you understand?- Yeah. - OK, so what we need to do,
0:04:11 > 0:04:12we need to get you some clothes.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14He's wanted for murder,
0:04:14 > 0:04:16an extremely serious offence, and, for me,
0:04:16 > 0:04:19the key consideration is to ensure that he doesn't present any risk
0:04:19 > 0:04:22to anybody present - the officers or, indeed, to himself.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24So, when we are in the address, once he is arrested,
0:04:24 > 0:04:27he needed to get dressed and change into some clothing.
0:04:27 > 0:04:32When he's trying to reach for drawers or to obtain some clothing,
0:04:32 > 0:04:35we want to be absolutely sure that is what's happening.
0:04:35 > 0:04:36Listen...
0:04:38 > 0:04:40You can take... Listen, you are under arrest,
0:04:40 > 0:04:42so you have to listen to us at all times.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44We are going to make sure that... Listen.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Listen to me. I'm going to make sure that I'm safe,
0:04:47 > 0:04:49my colleagues are safe, and that you are safe.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Nobody gets injured. You are wanted for a very serious offence.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54I will put you in handcuffs if I have to, do you understand me?
0:04:54 > 0:04:56- Yeah, but...- OK.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59OK, so you listen to the officer,
0:04:59 > 0:05:04and we will tell you when you can and you can't touch a drawer, OK?
0:05:04 > 0:05:06It's a very serious matter.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Pete's now sure he's got the right man...
0:05:09 > 0:05:12..but the Brazilian also thinks he knows the identity
0:05:12 > 0:05:15of the officer arresting him.
0:05:16 > 0:05:17You saw me?
0:05:21 > 0:05:22Yeah?
0:05:28 > 0:05:30- You saw me?- Yeah.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34He thinks I'm Ross Kemp.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38These are the people...
0:05:38 > 0:05:40I know the programme you're talking about.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42I don't know if it was me, though.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44I'm better looking than that fella.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49OK. Just put your hands out to the front.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Once he's said goodbye to his family,
0:06:02 > 0:06:04the Brazilian is taken to a police station.
0:06:08 > 0:06:09OK, you sit this side.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14On the way, he denies killing anyone.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17"No, I never killed anybody.
0:06:17 > 0:06:18"I was working in a hotel.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20"That man came to rob me.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22"I took his gun, I shot him.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24"Because he shot at me.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26"He shot the TV. He missed me."
0:06:26 > 0:06:31- That's what he said.- If you could just face that wall for me, please.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Now, it's down to a British judge to decide
0:06:34 > 0:06:39whether this suspected murderer can be extradited to Brazil.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43If he's sent back, a Brazilian court will then rule on his fate.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54Fugitives on the run will do whatever they can to escape the law,
0:06:54 > 0:06:57but one jetsetting criminal mastermind
0:06:57 > 0:06:59took it further than most.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02Smooth-talking conman Martin Evans.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05He's quite a charismatic person.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07People get taken in by him
0:07:07 > 0:07:10without realising the criminal he actually is.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14But Evans wasn't always a high-flying criminal.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16He started out as an honest businessman
0:07:16 > 0:07:18in a small South Wales town.
0:07:19 > 0:07:24A really nice, nice, well-mannered, polite gentleman.
0:07:24 > 0:07:30He had a natural persuasive talent and he exploited it, obviously.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35Evans was a driven entrepreneur.
0:07:35 > 0:07:40He even won the title of Welsh Young Businessman of the Year in 1987.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44It was an achievement,
0:07:44 > 0:07:48a remarkable achievement for a boy of his age, you know?
0:07:48 > 0:07:50We were all very proud of him.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53But success was short-lived.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57Within a few years, his business ventures had collapsed.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01That was when Evans turned to crime to make his money.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06By 1994 he had been sent to prison
0:08:06 > 0:08:09for fraud, and he used the time inside
0:08:09 > 0:08:12to dream up an extraordinary scam.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17With mad cow disease at its peak and beef off the menu,
0:08:17 > 0:08:23Evans convinced people to invest in a new source of red meat, ostrich,
0:08:23 > 0:08:27which he planned to breed on a farm on the outskirts of Swansea.
0:08:27 > 0:08:32Ostrich was the salvation. That was the number one thing to have.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34The brochure was fantastic,
0:08:34 > 0:08:39and he'd taken a lot of time and a lot of care about it,
0:08:39 > 0:08:44but he was out to exploit the market, and, er, which he did,
0:08:44 > 0:08:45in a grand scale.
0:08:47 > 0:08:52Evans was even quizzed about the ostriches on Welsh language news.
0:09:03 > 0:09:07Investors, some from Evans' own Welsh-speaking communities,
0:09:07 > 0:09:11were invited to buy a breeding ostrich and promised massive returns
0:09:11 > 0:09:14on their money. But it was all a con.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19It was set up as a fraud from day one.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22It was never meant to be legitimate,
0:09:22 > 0:09:28and so everybody that invested money were at risk.
0:09:28 > 0:09:33Former GP Peter Johns and his wife Betty invested £12,000
0:09:33 > 0:09:37from his retirement lump sum in one of the ostriches.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41We didn't end up with any money from the farm.
0:09:41 > 0:09:46We really thought that it was a good business to be in, it failed,
0:09:46 > 0:09:49but obviously there's been a little bit of problem
0:09:49 > 0:09:51because he's been a conman -
0:09:51 > 0:09:54but we didn't know that at the time.
0:09:54 > 0:10:00Almost 90 people invested £850,000 in the scheme,
0:10:00 > 0:10:04unaware that Evans was selling the same ostriches again and again
0:10:04 > 0:10:05to different people.
0:10:07 > 0:10:12We realised then every ostrich was owned by about five people.
0:10:12 > 0:10:19The ostrich farm finally went bust and the £850,000 disappeared,
0:10:19 > 0:10:21channelled into offshore accounts.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23All the investors were left with nothing.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Evans and his then wife were charged with fraud,
0:10:27 > 0:10:31but on the first day of their trial, he did a runner,
0:10:31 > 0:10:34leaving her alone to answer for their crime.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38But Evans was just getting started.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40The £850,000 he'd scammed
0:10:40 > 0:10:44was chicken feed compared to the millions he'd go on to make
0:10:44 > 0:10:47as an international drug smuggler.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50It was all about the money,
0:10:50 > 0:10:52it was all about making as much as he possibly could.
0:10:57 > 0:11:01Fugitives from justice in other countries often come to the UK
0:11:01 > 0:11:02to try to escape the law.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07Many of them end up here in West Yorkshire,
0:11:07 > 0:11:11where nearly 100 foreign fugitives have been arrested
0:11:11 > 0:11:12in the past year alone.
0:11:14 > 0:11:19PC Dave Lockwood is the officer in West Yorkshire Police who takes the
0:11:19 > 0:11:23lead on extradition cases, finding offenders wanted abroad.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28And he has his next target clearly in his sights.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31The interesting thing with this case is it's only just been received in
0:11:31 > 0:11:35our office today. And come to me a couple of hours ago.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38And all the intelligence is totally bang up-to-date,
0:11:38 > 0:11:40so I'm really confident with this address.
0:11:41 > 0:11:46Patryk Fornalski is wanted in Poland for violent offences.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48He's been convicted of assault and robbery.
0:11:49 > 0:11:55Along with other people, he has attacked three males.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57These three males have all been
0:11:57 > 0:12:00physically assaulted and property, money,
0:12:00 > 0:12:01has been stolen from two of them.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03This is a picture we hold here in West Yorkshire.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08Obviously, tattoos on the neck.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10Warning markers for violence. I'm not going to mess around
0:12:10 > 0:12:13with this lad, not going to take any chances if he's there.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15Not give him an opportunity to think.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22Yeah. Don't know which house it is yet.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Dave makes his way to the address,
0:12:24 > 0:12:27keeping a lookout for any sign of the target.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30End one.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35This is a high-risk offender, so backup is called in.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41When they arrive at the front gate, Dave sees a man through the window.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44He's seen us as well.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46But he's also spotted David.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48There's no time to waste.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Two officers quickly head to the back of the property,
0:12:51 > 0:12:53while Dave goes to the front door.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02There's a dog.
0:13:02 > 0:13:03Side door.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07The other officers have spotted someone.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Dave rushes round to the back door.
0:13:16 > 0:13:17Is the dog secure?
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Dog secure?
0:13:22 > 0:13:25They go inside and confront the man in the kitchen.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31- Hello. You all right? What's your name?- Patryk.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33- Patryk. And your last name? - Fornalski.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36Fornalski. I've got some bad news for you.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38There's a warrant been issued for your arrest.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40- Why?- OK. I'll explain it all to you in a minute.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Just put these handcuffs on.
0:13:42 > 0:13:47With his history of violence, Dave is taking no chances.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50- Who do you live here with? - My girlfriend, my daughter.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53- And my friends.- OK. You are under arrest for a European arrest warrant
0:13:53 > 0:13:56for an offensive robbery and offensive assault,
0:13:56 > 0:13:58which occurred in 2010. You do not have to say anything, but anything
0:13:58 > 0:14:01you do say may be given in evidence. Go in to the living room.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03- Take a seat.- My daughter, she is upstairs.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05OK, we don't want to disturb your daughter.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Take a seat. We'll just slow everything down, OK?
0:14:07 > 0:14:09You are probably panicking, wanting to do a thousand things.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11How old is your daughter that's upstairs?
0:14:11 > 0:14:14- Two years.- Two years?- Yeah. - And your partner is at work?
0:14:14 > 0:14:17- Yeah.- So you'll need to ring your partner for her to come home to look
0:14:17 > 0:14:20- after your daughter.- Yeah. Tell me why.- In 2010,
0:14:20 > 0:14:24they are saying you and some other people have carried out a robbery on
0:14:24 > 0:14:27three people. You beat three people up, stolen property from them.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29- That's not me.- Right.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32- You understand that.- That's for you to argue what the courts with the
0:14:32 > 0:14:33Polish authorities, isn't it?
0:14:33 > 0:14:36- Yeah, yeah.- Do you understand why they want you to go back?
0:14:36 > 0:14:40- I don't know.- They want you to go back to go to prison in Poland.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43- In Poland. - For these two offences, yeah.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45- Can you show me that? - Yeah, it's in English, this bit.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47That's saying you've been found guilty at court...
0:14:47 > 0:14:51- Yeah.- ..and it were two years for the robbery and six months for the
0:14:51 > 0:14:55- assault.- Yeah.- And it says here you've got one year,
0:14:55 > 0:14:57eight months and 28 days left to do.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00So my job here was to find you.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02All right, I understand everything.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06But tomorrow at court, you'll get an interpreter, you'll get a solicitor,
0:15:06 > 0:15:09and it's down to you and your legal team to sort this problem out. OK?
0:15:13 > 0:15:16Just stand there a second before you get in the car.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20This fugitive has been living here in the UK for five years,
0:15:20 > 0:15:22where he's started a new life.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25But the unspent conviction he left
0:15:25 > 0:15:30behind in Poland has now finally caught up with him.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32Patted his pants down, I'm happy with the rest.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38He was calm, yeah. His missus and the other lady in there,
0:15:38 > 0:15:41they were shaking and, obviously, his missus couldn't think.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44She were here, there and everywhere, trying to sort things out for him.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47So it's probably just torn that family apart.
0:15:47 > 0:15:52As Fornalski is taken to the police station and into custody,
0:15:52 > 0:15:53it's time for this fugitive to face
0:15:53 > 0:15:57the facts that he could be going back to jail in Poland.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06He'll spend the night in a police cell before being taken to court in
0:16:06 > 0:16:07- the morning...- Thanks.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11- Look after yourself.- ..where a judge will decide his fate.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22In the offices of the Metropolitan Police Extradition Unit,
0:16:22 > 0:16:29Detective Sergeant Pete Rance is working on an unusual case.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31So he was believed to be in Australia, China, Hong Kong,
0:16:31 > 0:16:33South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and the USA.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35- Everywhere but the UK. - What links him here?
0:16:35 > 0:16:38We know he's here. He's got business here, got a car registered here.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41All to the address we are going to go to.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44It's an extradition request from police in India,
0:16:44 > 0:16:47seeking the arrest of a North London businessman.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50We just do the normal, try and contain the address,
0:16:50 > 0:16:53someone round the back, me and Jay will make the approach
0:16:53 > 0:16:57to the address. You and Kev can cover the rear and the sides, yeah?
0:16:58 > 0:17:02The man they're looking for is wanted in connection with one of the
0:17:02 > 0:17:05most notorious match fixing scandals in the history of cricket.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10Back in the year 2000,
0:17:10 > 0:17:12the South African cricket team's captain
0:17:12 > 0:17:16was respected across the world and a hero in his own country.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18His name was Hansie Cronje.
0:17:20 > 0:17:25South Africa, under his leadership, had gone undefeated for 14 games.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29He came from a very well-respected South African family.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32His brother-in-law was a minister of religion
0:17:32 > 0:17:34and he was an absolute icon.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36But all was not as it seemed.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Hansie Cronje had secretly been
0:17:38 > 0:17:42taking bribes to fix international cricket games.
0:17:42 > 0:17:46He'd probably be one of the last people you would have thought to
0:17:46 > 0:17:48have been guilty of this sort of thing.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50So it was surprise more than anything
0:17:50 > 0:17:53and a tinge of sadness that it had happened to him.
0:17:53 > 0:17:57During a Test match series in South Africa in 2000,
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Cronje met a bookie who was already
0:17:59 > 0:18:02under investigation by Indian police.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Officers believed he was encouraging Cronje
0:18:05 > 0:18:08to fix certain parts of matches.
0:18:08 > 0:18:14What he was asking Cronje to do was to make sure that a certain person
0:18:14 > 0:18:18would perhaps only score under 20
0:18:18 > 0:18:20and also if a bowler would underperform
0:18:20 > 0:18:23and go for about six or seven runs an over,
0:18:23 > 0:18:27and that can make a huge amount of money.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29When evidence emerged that Cronje
0:18:29 > 0:18:33had taken large amounts of money from a betting syndicate,
0:18:33 > 0:18:35the former South African captain
0:18:35 > 0:18:39confessed all in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44I was not honest and I apologise unreservedly.
0:18:45 > 0:18:50Words cannot begin to describe the shame, humiliation and pain
0:18:50 > 0:18:54which I feel in the knowledge that I have inflicted this on others.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Cronje was banned from cricket for life.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03He died in a plane crash in South Africa just two years later.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09Many years on and thousands of miles away,
0:19:09 > 0:19:13Pete and his team are on their way to track down the bookie
0:19:13 > 0:19:17Indian authorities have accused of being involved in the betting
0:19:17 > 0:19:22syndicate that bribed the disgraced South African cricket captain.
0:19:22 > 0:19:27With this particular case - from start to finish to
0:19:27 > 0:19:30where we are now - has taken around four years to get to this point.
0:19:30 > 0:19:35From it being received into the office, as this bloke might be
0:19:35 > 0:19:38in the UK to having a warrant in our hands to go and arrest.
0:19:38 > 0:19:43The investigation has tracked the suspect to a house in North London,
0:19:43 > 0:19:46but as Pete approaches, the man he's after is on the move.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52Jamie's up there, he's got ahead of us and they are up by the address.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54And a man matching the description
0:19:54 > 0:19:59has just come out and got into a black Mercedes that is...
0:19:59 > 0:20:00MOBILE RINGS
0:20:00 > 0:20:03..registered to the man we are looking for.
0:20:03 > 0:20:04Hello.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08Hold on to him. We are about two minutes away.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10If you just step out for a second.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13OK, all right. Can I just talk...?
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Hello, sir. Can we just have a chat with you?
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Is that all right?
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Just talk to my colleague.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Hiya. That's my name, Peter Rance, I'm a Detective Sergeant
0:20:26 > 0:20:28with the Metropolitan Police Extradition Unit.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Are you aware that you are wanted in India?
0:20:31 > 0:20:33- There's something going on, yeah. - You are aware of that? OK.
0:20:33 > 0:20:34There's a warrant for your arrest.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36- I'm going to arrest you on that warrant.- OK.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence
0:20:39 > 0:20:41if you don't mention when questioned something which you later rely on
0:20:41 > 0:20:43in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47Can I just make a note of the time? OK, have you got your passport or
0:20:47 > 0:20:48any evidence of your identity on you at all?
0:20:48 > 0:20:51- Passport is in the house. - OK, can we go inside and get that?
0:20:51 > 0:20:53- Is that OK?- Sure.- We are going to stay you with you now, obviously,
0:20:53 > 0:20:56- because you are under arrest.- It's taken four years of investigation to
0:20:56 > 0:21:01find this suspect and he almost missed being arrested this morning.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03He was in the car, engine was on, he was just about to drive off,
0:21:03 > 0:21:06so we turned up just at the right time.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12OK.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16The suspect is taken to the police station before going to court,
0:21:16 > 0:21:20where he must begin to answer for the crimes he is accused of.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23I think he's panicked, I think he's extremely worried.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25He's got a young family over here.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27This was 16 years ago.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33But the feeling I got from him was that he was always a little bit
0:21:33 > 0:21:37concerned that there might be a knock on the door and today was the
0:21:37 > 0:21:41day when he was confronted with the fact that he is wanted for serious
0:21:41 > 0:21:45criminality in India, he is accused, not convicted.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48But if he ended up going back there and got convicted,
0:21:48 > 0:21:50he'd be going to prison for some time.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54So I would imagine it has put him very much on the back foot and
0:21:54 > 0:21:56apprehensive about what lies ahead.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Smooth-talking fraudster
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Martin Evans planned to make it big,
0:22:05 > 0:22:07whatever the cost.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10He was a shrewd man, but he wanted money quick.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14He'd come up with an incredible scam,
0:22:14 > 0:22:18convincing dozens of people to invest in a dodgy ostrich farm.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21It was set up as a fraud from day one.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24It was never meant to be legitimate.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Evans pocketed investors' money,
0:22:27 > 0:22:30then failed to turn up to his own trial,
0:22:30 > 0:22:33leaving his wife to face the music.
0:22:33 > 0:22:34It was all about the money,
0:22:34 > 0:22:37it was all about making as much as he possibly could,
0:22:37 > 0:22:39no matter who he harmed.
0:22:39 > 0:22:45He fled, and spent his life moving between the USA and Europe.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Within a year, the fugitive Evans
0:22:47 > 0:22:51had reinvented himself as an international drug smuggler
0:22:51 > 0:22:54and embraced the jet set lifestyle to go with it.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01This National Crime Agency officer was part of a team that hunted him.
0:23:01 > 0:23:06Martin had made £37 million and he had made that through fraud and
0:23:06 > 0:23:10through bringing drugs, cocaine and ecstasy, into the UK.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14But by 2001, Evans was under arrest once more,
0:23:14 > 0:23:19stopped as he flew into the USA through JFK Airport
0:23:19 > 0:23:20after a trip to Europe.
0:23:20 > 0:23:25The giveaway? False travel documents.
0:23:25 > 0:23:26He was on a watchlist,
0:23:26 > 0:23:29so the American authorities returned him to Paris.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32He was eventually extradited back to the UK in 2003.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35Evans was finally jailed for
0:23:35 > 0:23:3821 years for fraud and drug trafficking.
0:23:38 > 0:23:43The courts ordered him to surrender £5 million worth of assets.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46People have described Martin as a likeable rogue, but there's no doubt
0:23:46 > 0:23:49that Martin is in it for the profit for himself.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53After spending several years in prison,
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Evans was allowed out on a temporary licence.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59He was supposed to visit Swansea for the weekend.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03Instead, the con man took his chance and disappeared.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07A manhunt has been launched for a conman
0:24:07 > 0:24:09who's failed to return to prison.
0:24:09 > 0:24:1149-year-old Martin Evans from Pontarddulais
0:24:11 > 0:24:14swindled investors out of thousands of pounds.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18With Evans' record for globetrotting,
0:24:18 > 0:24:20the manhunt was a top priority for
0:24:20 > 0:24:25the agency responsible for tracking down British fugitives worldwide.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29We know that his then girlfriend had gone to Cyprus,
0:24:29 > 0:24:32so we were quite happy that Martin had moved out of the country and
0:24:32 > 0:24:35probably gone via the continent and ended up in Cyprus.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41It was a shrewd destination for Evans.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43The north of the island is allied to Turkey
0:24:43 > 0:24:46and has no extradition treaty with the UK.
0:24:48 > 0:24:502,000 miles from British justice,
0:24:50 > 0:24:53Evans and his partner settled into island life.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57He was living in a villa, a rented villa,
0:24:57 > 0:25:00which he was paying quite a substantial amount for each month.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02He had his dogs there, he was using the gym,
0:25:02 > 0:25:05and obviously enjoying the weather.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08Evans stayed under the radar.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Frustrated they couldn't get to him,
0:25:10 > 0:25:12the National Crime Agency teamed up
0:25:12 > 0:25:16with Crimestoppers to launch a public appeal in Cyprus.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21Investigators hoped the publicity would flush him out.
0:25:22 > 0:25:28He was featured within the local press on the island and there are
0:25:28 > 0:25:31expats there as well. So he would be thinking,
0:25:31 > 0:25:34"How long is it going to be before people actually pinpoint where I am
0:25:34 > 0:25:37"and they come and arrest me?"
0:25:37 > 0:25:39His cover was blown.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Evans knew it was time to flee once more.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45And this time, his destination was half a world away.
0:25:47 > 0:25:48Johannesburg, South Africa.
0:25:50 > 0:25:51In late 2012,
0:25:51 > 0:25:55Martin Evans came here to start yet another new life for himself,
0:25:55 > 0:25:58once again using a false identity.
0:25:59 > 0:26:05My officers back here in Wales were still ploughing through data,
0:26:05 > 0:26:08still trying to find where he was.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Working with the South African police,
0:26:10 > 0:26:14the NCA began to search the suburbs around Johannesburg.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16We were able to give the South Africans
0:26:16 > 0:26:19a number of locations which culminated with them
0:26:19 > 0:26:22deploying surveillance teams and surveillance assets
0:26:22 > 0:26:26to be able to identify which properties he was at.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29He lived in a villa, socialised, mixed with people,
0:26:29 > 0:26:31and carried on with quite a nice lifestyle.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35But the net was closing in.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38South African police staked out an upmarket suburb,
0:26:38 > 0:26:40waiting for Evans to surface.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45In August 2014, while he was getting out of his car,
0:26:45 > 0:26:49armed police swooped in and arrested him.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51I don't think he put up much of a fight
0:26:51 > 0:26:54between heavily-armed surveillance South African operatives.
0:26:54 > 0:26:58At a Johannesburg court, a judge ordered his extradition.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01The epic flight from justice that began in south Wales
0:27:01 > 0:27:04finally ended in South Africa.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06It doesn't sound a huge thing when somebody has actually
0:27:06 > 0:27:09absconded from prison and left the UK, but when you are actually
0:27:09 > 0:27:12taking into account the criminal that Martin Evans was,
0:27:12 > 0:27:15it was satisfying to actually have him arrested
0:27:15 > 0:27:16and put back before the courts.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19Evans was brought back to the UK
0:27:19 > 0:27:21to finish the rest of his jail sentence.
0:27:21 > 0:27:25Probably part of him was relieved that he was coming back to the UK,
0:27:25 > 0:27:28but another part of him was leaving the good life
0:27:28 > 0:27:31in South Africa, which we know that he was enjoying immensely.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35During his years smuggling drugs into the UK,
0:27:35 > 0:27:40Evans was believed to have made more than £37 million.
0:27:40 > 0:27:46He'd spent it on luxury cars, yachts and villas, living the high life.
0:27:46 > 0:27:50But now, the game was up and he was brought back to where he belonged,
0:27:50 > 0:27:52a prison cell.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00Martin Evans served the rest of his sentence and was released on
0:28:00 > 0:28:03conditional licence in 2015.
0:28:04 > 0:28:08He still has to repay £5 million in criminal proceeds.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15The man arrested for allegedly taking part in a match fixing scam
0:28:15 > 0:28:18is currently on bail. He will appear in court again in the spring.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23Patryk Fornalski remains in custody,
0:28:23 > 0:28:27whilst the courts decide if he should be sent to Poland to serve
0:28:27 > 0:28:29his time for theft and assault.
0:28:33 > 0:28:34And Francesco dos Santos -
0:28:34 > 0:28:38who denies both charges of murder and attempted murder -
0:28:38 > 0:28:41is currently appealing against his extradition to Brazil.