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 > 0:00:12When foreign criminals flee their home countries,
0:00:12 > 0:00:14many hide out in the UK...
0:00:14 > 0:00:15Give me your hands.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17..But if they think they're safe, they're wrong.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19They know they're wanted.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22A lot of these people are waiting for that knock on the door.
0:00:22 > 0:00:26But the traffic in fugitives isn't all one way.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Across Europe there are hundreds of British criminals
0:00:31 > 0:00:33also trying to escape justice.
0:00:33 > 0:00:38From the sun-drenched Costas where the villains seek a life of luxury,
0:00:38 > 0:00:40to the busy streets of the Dutch capital,
0:00:40 > 0:00:43where many continue their life of crime.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48We join the crack teams hunting them down.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50When you take the risk to come to Amsterdam as a criminal,
0:00:50 > 0:00:53there's a high chance that we'll catch you.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57When it comes to justice, borders are no barrier.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00You're under arrest under the Extradition Act 2003.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04This is how the police take down the fugitives...
0:01:04 > 0:01:05Police Officer!
0:01:05 > 0:01:07..both at home and abroad.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11If you're thinking of running, don't.
0:01:11 > 0:01:12We will find you.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15We will bring you back.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25On today's programme,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28the Metropolitan Police are up against it,
0:01:28 > 0:01:31trying to identify a suspect accused of killing a man
0:01:31 > 0:01:34and shooting a policeman in Brazil...
0:01:34 > 0:01:36There was no identification material.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38Brazil would not send us a photograph of him.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40We didn't have any fingerprints for him.
0:01:40 > 0:01:44..the millionaire ostrich farmer turned drug smuggler,
0:01:44 > 0:01:47who travelled the globe to escape the law...
0:01:47 > 0:01:51I've always maintained that Martin Evans would be a millionaire,
0:01:51 > 0:01:52by hook or by crook.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Unfortunately, he decided by crook.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59..and police in Yorkshire have a surprise for a violent robber
0:01:59 > 0:02:02who dodged jail in Poland...
0:02:02 > 0:02:03I've got some bad news for you.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05There's a warrant been issued for your arrest.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Just put these handcuffs on.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15London is home to nearly nine million people.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18Hidden amongst them, fugitives from across the world.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22It's the job of the Met's Extradition Unit to find them.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25This morning a team of detectives
0:02:25 > 0:02:28are heading to the east of the city
0:02:28 > 0:02:30in search of a man wanted for murder,
0:02:30 > 0:02:33but all they have to go on is his name.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Francisco dos Santos is wanted in Brazil
0:02:36 > 0:02:38where he is accused of murdering
0:02:38 > 0:02:41a man and attempting to murder
0:02:41 > 0:02:45a police officer back in November 1994.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47A police officer is alleged to have
0:02:47 > 0:02:49come across a drugs deal taking place
0:02:49 > 0:02:51in a hotel where dos Santos
0:02:51 > 0:02:55was working - and in the course of the struggle,
0:02:55 > 0:02:59dos Santos is accused of taking the police officer's gun from his belt
0:02:59 > 0:03:01and shooting him.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Pete thinks this is the home of the suspect,
0:03:04 > 0:03:06but there's no answer at the door.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10Hello.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14Unlike the rest of the street, this house seems to be unoccupied.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18If you look along, windows open, quite a warm evening.
0:03:18 > 0:03:23Windows open on every house here, really.
0:03:23 > 0:03:24But not on this one.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28Then just as the team are about to give up,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31they hear a sound from inside the house...
0:03:31 > 0:03:32Someone is coming.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39Sorry to trouble you, sir. Good morning.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Did you hear us knocking at all?
0:03:41 > 0:03:43..but Pete has a problem.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46He's got no idea what the suspect looks like.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48There was no identification material.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Brazil would not send us a photograph of him.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52We didn't have any fingerprints for him.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54One of the considerations when we knocked on the door
0:03:54 > 0:03:56was who was going to come to the door?
0:03:56 > 0:03:57Were we going to be given access
0:03:57 > 0:03:59to speak to other people that live there?
0:03:59 > 0:04:02Was it going to be dos Santos himself that came to the door?
0:04:02 > 0:04:03I'm Pete Rance.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06I'm a detective sergeant with the Metropolitan Police Service.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Can you tell me your full name, please?
0:04:11 > 0:04:12And what's your date of birth, please?
0:04:12 > 0:04:15In this particular case it was, and we spoke to him
0:04:15 > 0:04:18and were able to ascertain that he was the person
0:04:18 > 0:04:19that was wanted in Brazil.
0:04:19 > 0:04:2130th of November 1994,
0:04:21 > 0:04:25you're accused of murdering this man, Mr Andrade.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29- Do you know that? Did you know you had a problem in Brazil?- Yeah.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32You know about it? OK. Because I've got a warrant for your arrest,
0:04:32 > 0:04:33you're under arrest on that warrant.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36You do not have to say anything, but anything you do say
0:04:36 > 0:04:37may be given in evidence.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39- Do you understand?- Yeah. - OK, so what we need to do,
0:04:39 > 0:04:40we need to get you some clothes
0:04:40 > 0:04:42and then we need to take you to a police station
0:04:42 > 0:04:44so that we can put you before the court later today.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Do you understand? So I need to stay with you at all times now
0:04:47 > 0:04:48because you're under arrest.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52It's in everybody's interest that we identify the right person.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56We're not interested in locating and identifying the wrong people.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59It's about - it's essentially manhunt work
0:04:59 > 0:05:02and it's key to us not to waste our own time,
0:05:02 > 0:05:04or to waste anybody else's time,
0:05:04 > 0:05:07including the people that we locate and speak to.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10It's all about making sure we get the right person.
0:05:11 > 0:05:12Now he's got his man,
0:05:12 > 0:05:15Pete needs to get him out of the house and into custody.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Does your wife know about the problem in Brazil, Francisco?
0:05:20 > 0:05:21- No.- She doesn't know?- No.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25- OK.- She knows, yeah. - She knows?- She knows.
0:05:25 > 0:05:26Oh, she knows. OK, OK.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34In the past, all a wanted criminal needed
0:05:34 > 0:05:36to stay out of reach of the law
0:05:36 > 0:05:40was a good disguise and a phoney passport - but not any more.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43The modern age we live in,
0:05:43 > 0:05:45with data, with technology,
0:05:45 > 0:05:49actually makes it really, really difficult to disappear now.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Compared to say 1970s, where, you know, everything was on paper,
0:05:53 > 0:05:55pencil and pen and typewriter,
0:05:55 > 0:05:57actually, now, everything is connected.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01It's much easier to find people.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04These days it's harder to fake your identity,
0:06:04 > 0:06:08in part because of a technology known as biometrics.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Biometric technology is essentially a technique to establish identity
0:06:12 > 0:06:14based on a physical feature.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17So that could be your face, that could be your fingerprint,
0:06:17 > 0:06:20that could be the patterns in your iris, or that could be your speech.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24Biometric information is now hard-wired into passports
0:06:24 > 0:06:28and can be checked every time you cross the border.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Biometric technology in passports
0:06:30 > 0:06:33is about being able to include the digital version
0:06:33 > 0:06:36of someone's physical features in a passport.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40The most common way of doing it is to actually bring a digital image
0:06:40 > 0:06:42of the person into the passports.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45You've got an electronic image you can compare the holder with.
0:06:46 > 0:06:51The UK introduced the e-Passport in 2006.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55All new UK passports carry biometric information.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57A small camera symbol on the front
0:06:57 > 0:07:00tells you that it contains an electronic chip.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03When you apply for that new passport,
0:07:03 > 0:07:05you give up a lot of information about yourself
0:07:05 > 0:07:09and you also provide a photo. So during that enrolment process,
0:07:09 > 0:07:11that photo is then digitised,
0:07:11 > 0:07:13encrypted and stored on the chip
0:07:13 > 0:07:16that is contained within your passport.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18When you scan your e-Passport at the airport,
0:07:18 > 0:07:22a machine compares you to the image held on the chip
0:07:22 > 0:07:26to make sure it's the same person, all in a few seconds.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Biometric documents are really important
0:07:28 > 0:07:30because it establishes that identity
0:07:30 > 0:07:33and you have assurance that the person you are talking to
0:07:33 > 0:07:35at the border or at the security control
0:07:35 > 0:07:37point is the person they claim to be.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40But e-Passports aren't foolproof.
0:07:42 > 0:07:46It is possible that a criminal or a fugitive could use an e-Passport.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49It's not easy. It's actually very difficult to do that,
0:07:49 > 0:07:52but the easiest way of being able to achieve that
0:07:52 > 0:07:56is by being somebody else when you apply for the e-Passport.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59You could essentially obtain a fake birth certificate
0:07:59 > 0:08:01and then establish yourself
0:08:01 > 0:08:04as that person by enrolling for a modern e-Passport
0:08:04 > 0:08:06under an assumed identity.
0:08:07 > 0:08:12But now the science of biometrics is moving to another level.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16Technology is being developed to give CCTV cameras
0:08:16 > 0:08:19the power to recognise faces.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23We've seen a general migration towards biometrics,
0:08:23 > 0:08:25mainly due to the amount of systems
0:08:25 > 0:08:26that we interact with day-to-day now.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31So facial recognition is based on identifying a pattern on the face
0:08:31 > 0:08:34and, generally speaking, the pattern is the distance,
0:08:34 > 0:08:36particularly the distance between the eyes.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40We set up this experiment to show how facial measurements and patterns
0:08:40 > 0:08:45can be used to identify people captured on CCTV.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47So here we have a number of pictures we've been sent
0:08:47 > 0:08:49from social media profiles.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52This is a photo of one of the production team,
0:08:52 > 0:08:56but will Paul's machine be able to match it to the moving image
0:08:56 > 0:08:59of the same face walking in a crowd?
0:08:59 > 0:09:02We've got the camera done in a low position
0:09:02 > 0:09:03as people are coming towards us.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05This long corridor helps us slow people down
0:09:05 > 0:09:07and it also helps get them in the right position
0:09:07 > 0:09:09because they'll be facing the camera
0:09:09 > 0:09:12and we'll get a nice frontal view of the face.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15The system is comparing the biometric measurements
0:09:15 > 0:09:19it took of the man in the photo to the faces it sees in the video,
0:09:19 > 0:09:23and in just minutes it matches that biometric information
0:09:23 > 0:09:26and locks onto the subject.
0:09:26 > 0:09:27We can clearly see the man we are looking for
0:09:27 > 0:09:30is right in the middle of the picture at the moment.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32The man has very clearly got a good profile
0:09:32 > 0:09:33and a good photo to match against him.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35He's been easily identified by the system.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38Although the system identifies our man,
0:09:38 > 0:09:42Paul knows it can't beat human eyes and ears.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44We're still not going to be able to replace humans
0:09:44 > 0:09:47and we're still not going to be able to do everything with the camera.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49So it's just going to be a tool in the tool box
0:09:49 > 0:09:50for police and law enforcement,
0:09:50 > 0:09:53but it'll definitely make the fugitive's job a lot harder
0:09:53 > 0:09:55because there'll be more and more cameras,
0:09:55 > 0:09:57and there'll be more people looking for them on those cameras.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02It seems biometrics is making the world a tougher place
0:10:02 > 0:10:04for fugitives to hide.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07It's becoming much more difficult to travel around the world
0:10:07 > 0:10:09under an assumed identity.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12It's not impossible, but it is very, very difficult.
0:10:12 > 0:10:17Increasingly, with the use of biometrics, the use of fingerprints,
0:10:17 > 0:10:20DNA, we're capturing these people on a regular basis.
0:10:24 > 0:10:29Fugitives on the run will do whatever they can to escape the law,
0:10:29 > 0:10:31but one jetsetting criminal mastermind
0:10:31 > 0:10:33took it further than most.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36Smooth-talking conman Martin Evans.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40He's quite a charismatic person.
0:10:40 > 0:10:41People get taken in by him
0:10:41 > 0:10:44without realising the criminal he actually is.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48But Evans wasn't always a high-flying criminal.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50He started out as an honest businessman
0:10:50 > 0:10:52in a small South Wales town.
0:10:54 > 0:10:58A really nice, nice, well-mannered, polite gentleman.
0:10:58 > 0:11:05He had a natural persuasive talent and he exploited it, obviously.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09Evans was a driven young entrepreneur.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12He opened the town's first video rental store
0:11:12 > 0:11:14when he was in his early 20s.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18I personally didn't know anybody who had a video.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21I said, "You're taking a terrific gamble," but, you know,
0:11:21 > 0:11:26he was forward-thinking and I could admire the guy for it, you know?
0:11:27 > 0:11:32He even won the title of Welsh Young Businessman of the Year in 1987.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36It was an achievement,
0:11:36 > 0:11:40a remarkable achievement for a boy of his age, you know?
0:11:40 > 0:11:42We were all very proud of him.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46But success was short-lived.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49Within a few years his business ventures had collapsed.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53That was when Evans turned to crime to make his money.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58By 1994 he had been sent to prison
0:11:58 > 0:12:02for fraud, and he used the time inside
0:12:02 > 0:12:04to dream up an extraordinary scam.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09With mad cow disease at its peak and beef off the menu,
0:12:09 > 0:12:15Evans convinced people to invest in a new source of red meat, ostrich,
0:12:15 > 0:12:19which he planned to breed on a farm on the outskirts of Swansea.
0:12:19 > 0:12:24Ostrich was the salvation. That was the number one thing to have.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26The brochure was fantastic,
0:12:26 > 0:12:31and he'd taken a lot of time and a lot of care about it,
0:12:31 > 0:12:36but he was out to exploit the market, and, er, which he did,
0:12:36 > 0:12:38in a grand scale.
0:12:39 > 0:12:44Evans was even quizzed about the ostriches on Welsh language news.
0:12:55 > 0:12:59Investors, some from Evans' own Welsh-speaking communities,
0:12:59 > 0:13:03were invited to buy a breeding ostrich and promised massive returns
0:13:03 > 0:13:07on their money. But it was all a con.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11It was set up as a fraud from day one.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14It was never meant to be legitimate,
0:13:14 > 0:13:20and so everybody that invested money were at risk.
0:13:20 > 0:13:26Former GP Peter Johns and his wife Betty invested £12,000
0:13:26 > 0:13:29from his retirement lump sum in one of the ostriches.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34We didn't end up with any money from the farm.
0:13:34 > 0:13:39We really thought that it was a good business to be in, it failed,
0:13:39 > 0:13:42but obviously there's been a little bit of problem
0:13:42 > 0:13:44because he's been a conman -
0:13:44 > 0:13:45but we didn't know that at the time.
0:13:47 > 0:13:52Almost 90 people invested £850,000 in the scheme,
0:13:52 > 0:13:56unaware that Evans was selling the same ostriches again and again
0:13:56 > 0:13:57to different people.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03We realised then every ostrich was owned by about five people.
0:14:05 > 0:14:11The ostrich farm finally went bust and the £850,000 disappeared,
0:14:11 > 0:14:14channelled into offshore accounts.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16All the investors were left with nothing.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20Evans and his then wife were charged with fraud,
0:14:20 > 0:14:23but on the first day of their trial, he did a runner,
0:14:23 > 0:14:26leaving her alone to answer for their crime.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31But Evans was just getting started.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33The £850,000 he'd scammed
0:14:33 > 0:14:37was chicken feed compared to the millions he'd go on to make
0:14:37 > 0:14:39as an international drug smuggler.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42It was all about the money,
0:14:42 > 0:14:44it was all about making as much as he possibly could.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Someone's coming.
0:14:52 > 0:14:53Back in East London,
0:14:53 > 0:14:58DS Pete Rance and his team of detectives from the Extradition Unit
0:14:58 > 0:15:00are in the home of a man wanted in Brazil
0:15:00 > 0:15:01for the murder of one man
0:15:01 > 0:15:04and the attempted murder of a police officer.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07OK. Where are your clothes?
0:15:17 > 0:15:18OK.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Listen, you're not in trouble with me or in the United Kingdom,
0:15:21 > 0:15:24but Brazil has made a request and now, because there's a warrant,
0:15:24 > 0:15:27we have to arrest you, and you will go to court in London
0:15:27 > 0:15:29and then the court will decide
0:15:29 > 0:15:32whether you have to go back to Brazil or not, OK?
0:15:32 > 0:15:33Where are your clothes?
0:15:35 > 0:15:37OK, let's go, then.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40It's a very serious accusation
0:15:40 > 0:15:43and the police aren't taking any chances.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46I just don't want him...
0:15:46 > 0:15:48OK, OK, we are just going to be a little bit careful.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51You're wanted for a very serious offence back there.
0:15:51 > 0:15:52He's wanted for murder,
0:15:52 > 0:15:55an extremely serious offence, and, for me,
0:15:55 > 0:15:57the key consideration is to ensure that he doesn't present any risk
0:15:57 > 0:16:00to anybody present - the officers or, indeed, to himself.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03So, when we are in the address, once he is arrested,
0:16:03 > 0:16:05he needed to get dressed and change into some clothing.
0:16:05 > 0:16:10When he's trying to reach for drawers or to obtain some clothing,
0:16:10 > 0:16:14we want to be absolutely sure that is what's happening.
0:16:14 > 0:16:15Listen...
0:16:17 > 0:16:19You can take... Listen, you are under arrest,
0:16:19 > 0:16:21so you have to listen to us at all times.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23We are going to make sure that... Listen.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25Listen to me. I'm going to make sure that I'm safe,
0:16:25 > 0:16:27my colleagues are safe, and that you are safe.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Nobody gets injured. You are wanted for a very serious offence.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32I will put you in handcuffs if I have to, do you understand me?
0:16:32 > 0:16:35- Yeah, but...- OK.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37OK, so you listen to the officer,
0:16:37 > 0:16:42and we will tell you when you can and you can't touch a drawer, OK?
0:16:42 > 0:16:44It's a very serious matter.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Where are your trousers?
0:16:47 > 0:16:49OK, can you get them?
0:16:49 > 0:16:51- This one?- No.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57- No, there's no need...- These ones?
0:16:57 > 0:16:59No. The other ones.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01The brown ones?
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Yeah...
0:17:03 > 0:17:04These?
0:17:13 > 0:17:15With the choice of trousers sorted,
0:17:15 > 0:17:17Pete is now sure he's got the right man...
0:17:18 > 0:17:21..but the Brazilian also thinks he knows the identity
0:17:21 > 0:17:24of the officer arresting him.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27You saw me?
0:17:30 > 0:17:31Yeah?
0:17:38 > 0:17:39- You saw me?- Yeah.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43He thinks I'm Ross Kemp.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47These are the people...
0:17:47 > 0:17:49I know the programme you are talking about.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52I don't know if it was me, though.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54I'm better looking than that fella.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Does your wife know about the problem in Brazil, Francesco?
0:18:02 > 0:18:03- No.- She doesn't know? OK.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08- She knows.- Oh, she knows. OK.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15OK. Just put your hands out to the front.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28Once he's said goodbye to his family,
0:18:28 > 0:18:30the Brazilian is taken to a police station.
0:18:34 > 0:18:35OK, you sit this side.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40On the way, he denies killing anyone.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43'No, I never killed anybody.
0:18:43 > 0:18:44'I was working in a hotel.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46'That man came to rob me.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48'I took his gun, I shot him.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50'Because he shot at me.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52'He shot the TV. He missed me.'
0:18:52 > 0:18:57- That's what he said.- If you could just face that wall for me, please.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Now, it's down to a British judge to decide
0:19:00 > 0:19:05whether this suspected murderer can be extradited to Brazil.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09If he is sent back, a Brazilian court will then rule on his fate.
0:19:17 > 0:19:21Fugitives from justice in other countries often come to the UK
0:19:21 > 0:19:22to try to escape the law.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27Many of them end up here in West Yorkshire,
0:19:27 > 0:19:30where nearly 100 foreign fugitives have been arrested
0:19:30 > 0:19:32in the past year alone.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37There's very few people that can completely go to ground
0:19:37 > 0:19:39and never resurface.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43Everyone's got a name, a number,
0:19:43 > 0:19:46somewhere you will come to attention.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51If you try to establish yourself in the UK,
0:19:51 > 0:19:54you will find yourself encountering authorities.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Whether it's registering with a doctor,
0:19:57 > 0:20:00whether it is engagement with the local police...
0:20:00 > 0:20:02He's sat in the car, mate. He's sat in the car.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05..eventually, you will fall foul.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09PC Dave Lockwood is the officer in West Yorkshire Police who takes the
0:20:09 > 0:20:13lead on extradition cases, finding offenders wanted abroad.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17I can see you there, you are going to have to open the door.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20OK? It's the police. If you don't open the door, force will be used.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27Tonight, he's out hunting for a woman who is on the run after being
0:20:27 > 0:20:29convicted in Romania for fraud.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34She's basically gone up to somebody,
0:20:34 > 0:20:37who is obviously going through the court process,
0:20:37 > 0:20:42and said, for 50,000 euros, she can bribe the judge and get him off.
0:20:42 > 0:20:46Whatever they are going through, getting a not guilty.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49There is no suggestion in this paperwork that there were a judge
0:20:49 > 0:20:51involved and that she were able to do that,
0:20:51 > 0:20:54but it appears that the fraud is she's gone up to that individual,
0:20:54 > 0:20:57promising that, so tried to obtain that money.
0:20:57 > 0:20:58Ready?
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Dave has intelligence suggesting
0:21:01 > 0:21:06she's fled here and is in hiding at this address.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Just want to make sure we've got the right address.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13He approaches the front door and there is clearly someone home.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Yeah. It looks like it's going to be flats.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18I've got a male in the first living room window,
0:21:18 > 0:21:20I'll give it a knock and see where we go.
0:21:22 > 0:21:23'OK.'
0:21:25 > 0:21:28But they are in no hurry to open the door.
0:21:30 > 0:21:31Hello.
0:21:33 > 0:21:38No, he's not wanting to get up off the sofa.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46- Hello.- Hello.- Sorry for troubling you, it's the police.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Can I come in, please? Is this all flats in here?
0:21:49 > 0:21:50- Yeah.- She lives here.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54- She's just showing me her room.- The intelligence he's got has led him to
0:21:54 > 0:21:55the right place.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58But he's arrived at the wrong time.
0:21:58 > 0:21:59She lived here.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02- She lives there now? - Yeah, yeah.- OK.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05I was friendly with her and now she go to holiday.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08- She is on holiday?- Yes. - She's not in there?- No, no.
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Right.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21I think they've been a bit startled
0:22:21 > 0:22:23by our presence and knocking on the door.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26We've established, from talking to the people downstairs,
0:22:26 > 0:22:29the lady we are looking for lives here.
0:22:29 > 0:22:30But bad timing.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32It appears she's on holiday.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35So, we've lost the element of surprise.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37It seems this fugitive has dodged
0:22:37 > 0:22:41the law, but there are plenty of others on Dave's list.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Coming up...
0:22:46 > 0:22:47Warning markers of violence,
0:22:47 > 0:22:50I'm not going to mess around with this lad, not taking any chances.
0:22:50 > 0:22:54..Dave's on the trail of a convicted robber on the run from Poland,
0:22:54 > 0:22:56where he's wanted for a number of violent crimes.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04Smooth-talking fraudster
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Martin Evans planned to make it big,
0:23:07 > 0:23:08whatever the cost.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11He was a shrewd man, but he wanted money quick.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14He'd come up with an incredible scam,
0:23:14 > 0:23:19convincing dozens of people to invest in a dodgy ostrich farm.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23It was set up as a fraud from day one.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25It was never meant to be legitimate.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Evans pocketed investors' money,
0:23:29 > 0:23:32then failed to turn up to his own trial,
0:23:32 > 0:23:35leaving his wife to face the music.
0:23:35 > 0:23:36Martin Evans effectively allowed
0:23:36 > 0:23:39himself to climb that criminal ladder.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45He fled, first to a luxury villa near Marbella,
0:23:45 > 0:23:46he also acquired a penthouse in
0:23:46 > 0:23:51Florida and spent his life moving between the USA and Europe.
0:23:51 > 0:23:55With every trip, his drug smuggling empire was growing.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58It involved the importation of cocaine and ecstasy
0:23:58 > 0:24:01into the United Kingdom. It had links in South America.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04It had significant European links
0:24:04 > 0:24:05in Holland, not surprisingly.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Within a year, the fugitive Evans
0:24:08 > 0:24:12had reinvented himself as an international drug smuggler
0:24:12 > 0:24:16and embraced the jet set lifestyle to go with it.
0:24:16 > 0:24:17It was all about the money,
0:24:17 > 0:24:20it was all about making as much as he possibly could,
0:24:20 > 0:24:23no matter who he harmed, no matter what activity,
0:24:23 > 0:24:26ie in this one, class A drugs, he actually invested in.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32But by 2001, Evans was under arrest once more,
0:24:32 > 0:24:36stopped as he flew into the USA through JFK Airport
0:24:36 > 0:24:39after a trip to Europe. The giveaway?
0:24:39 > 0:24:41False travel documents.
0:24:42 > 0:24:46This National Crime Agency officer was part of a team that hunted him.
0:24:49 > 0:24:50He was on a watchlist,
0:24:50 > 0:24:53so the American authorities returned him to Paris.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56He was eventually extradited back to the UK in 2003.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Evans was finally jailed for
0:24:59 > 0:25:0221 years for fraud and drug trafficking.
0:25:02 > 0:25:07The courts ordered him to surrender £5 million worth of assets.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11But the judge estimated he'd stashed away a far bigger fortune.
0:25:12 > 0:25:18Martin had made £37 million and he had made that through fraud and
0:25:18 > 0:25:21through bringing drugs, cocaine and ecstasy, into the UK.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Martin gave no regard to the people
0:25:23 > 0:25:26that he was affecting adversely on the streets of the UK.
0:25:27 > 0:25:32Coming up, it seemed Evans' days on the run were over.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35But when he was allowed home from jail for the weekend,
0:25:35 > 0:25:38he took the opportunity to disappear once more.
0:25:38 > 0:25:42There was no trace of him within the UK that we could find.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44Our fear was that he would continue his criminal activities.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53In the offices of the Metropolitan Police Extradition Unit,
0:25:53 > 0:25:59Detective Sergeant Pete Rance is working on an unusual case.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01So he was believed to be in Australia, China, Hong Kong,
0:26:01 > 0:26:03South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and the USA.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06- Everywhere but the UK. - What links him here?
0:26:06 > 0:26:09We know he's here. He's got business here, got a car registered here.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11All to the address we are going to go to.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14It is an extradition request from police in India,
0:26:14 > 0:26:18seeking the arrest of a North London businessman.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20We just do the normal, try and contain the address,
0:26:20 > 0:26:23someone round the back, me and Jay will make the approach
0:26:23 > 0:26:27to the address. You and Kev can cover the rear and the sides, yeah?
0:26:28 > 0:26:32The man they are looking for is wanted in connection with one of the
0:26:32 > 0:26:36most notorious match fixing scandals in the history of cricket.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Back in the year 2000,
0:26:40 > 0:26:43the South African cricket team's captain
0:26:43 > 0:26:46was respected across the world and a hero in his own country.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49His name was Hansie Cronje.
0:26:51 > 0:26:56South Africa, under his leadership, had gone undefeated for 14 games.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59He came from a very well-respected South African family.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02His brother-in-law was a minister of religion
0:27:02 > 0:27:04and he was an absolute icon.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06But all was not as it seemed.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08Hansie Cronje had secretly been
0:27:08 > 0:27:11taking bribes to fix international cricket games.
0:27:11 > 0:27:16He'd probably be one of the last people you would have thought to
0:27:16 > 0:27:18have been guilty of this sort of thing.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21So it was surprise more than anything
0:27:21 > 0:27:23and a tinge of sadness that it had happened to him.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27During a Test match series in South Africa in 2000,
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Cronje met a bookie who was already
0:27:29 > 0:27:33under investigation by Indian police.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36Officers believed he was encouraging Cronje
0:27:36 > 0:27:38to fix certain parts of matches.
0:27:38 > 0:27:44What he was asking Cronje to do was to make sure that a certain person
0:27:44 > 0:27:48would perhaps only score under 20
0:27:48 > 0:27:50and also if a bowler would underperform
0:27:50 > 0:27:54and go for about six or seven runs an over,
0:27:54 > 0:27:57and that can make a huge amount of money.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59When evidence emerged that Cronje
0:27:59 > 0:28:03had taken large amounts of money from a betting syndicate,
0:28:03 > 0:28:05the former South African captain
0:28:05 > 0:28:09confessed all in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14I was not honest and I apologise unreservedly.
0:28:16 > 0:28:21Words cannot begin to describe the shame, humiliation and pain
0:28:21 > 0:28:25which I feel in the knowledge that I have inflicted this on others.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29Cronje was banned from cricket for life.
0:28:29 > 0:28:33He died in a plane crash in South Africa just two years later.
0:28:36 > 0:28:40Many years on and thousands of miles away,
0:28:40 > 0:28:43Pete and his team are on their way to track down the bookie
0:28:43 > 0:28:47Indian authorities have accused of being involved in the betting
0:28:47 > 0:28:52syndicate that bribed the disgraced South African cricket captain.
0:28:52 > 0:28:57With this particular case - from start to finish to
0:28:57 > 0:29:01where we are now - has taken around four years to get to this point.
0:29:01 > 0:29:05From it being received into the office, as this bloke might be
0:29:05 > 0:29:08in the UK to having a warrant in our hands to go and arrest.
0:29:08 > 0:29:13The investigation has tracked the suspect to a house in North London,
0:29:13 > 0:29:16but as Pete approaches, the man he is after is on the move.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22Jamie is up there, he' got ahead of us and they are up by the address.
0:29:22 > 0:29:25And a man matching the description
0:29:25 > 0:29:29has just come out and got into a black Mercedes that is...
0:29:29 > 0:29:31MOBILE RINGS
0:29:31 > 0:29:33..registered to the man we are looking for.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35Hello.
0:29:35 > 0:29:39Hold on to him. We are about minutes away.
0:29:39 > 0:29:41If you just step out for a second.
0:29:42 > 0:29:43OK, all right. Can I just talk...?
0:29:43 > 0:29:45Hello, sir. Can we just have a chat with you?
0:29:45 > 0:29:48Is that all right?
0:29:51 > 0:29:53Just talk to my colleague.
0:29:53 > 0:29:56Hiya. That's my name, Peter Rance, I am a Detective Sergeant
0:29:56 > 0:29:58with the Metropolitan Police Extradition Unit.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01Are you aware that you are wanted in India?
0:30:01 > 0:30:03- There's something going on, yeah. - You are aware of that? OK.
0:30:03 > 0:30:05There's a warrant for your arrest.
0:30:05 > 0:30:06- I'm going to arrest you on that warrant.- OK.
0:30:06 > 0:30:09You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defensive
0:30:09 > 0:30:12if you don't mention when questioned something which you later rely on
0:30:12 > 0:30:14in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
0:30:14 > 0:30:17Can I just make a note of the time? OK, have you got your passport or
0:30:17 > 0:30:19any evidence of your identity on you at all?
0:30:19 > 0:30:21- Passport is in the house. - OK, can we go inside and get that?
0:30:21 > 0:30:24- Is that OK?- Sure.- We are going to stay you with you now, obviously,
0:30:24 > 0:30:27- because you are under arrest.- It's taken four years of investigation to
0:30:27 > 0:30:31find this suspect and he almost missed being arrested this morning.
0:30:31 > 0:30:33He was in the car, engine was on, he was just about to drive off,
0:30:33 > 0:30:36so we turned up just at the right time.
0:30:41 > 0:30:42OK.
0:30:42 > 0:30:46The suspect is taken to the police station before going to court,
0:30:46 > 0:30:50where he must begin to answer for the crimes he is accused of.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53I think he's panicked, I think he's extremely worried.
0:30:53 > 0:30:56He's got a young family over here.
0:30:56 > 0:30:57This was 16 years ago.
0:30:59 > 0:31:04But the feeling I got from him was that he was always a little bit
0:31:04 > 0:31:07concerned that there might be a knock on the door and today was the
0:31:07 > 0:31:12day when he was confronted with the fact that he is wanted for serious
0:31:12 > 0:31:15criminality in India, he is accused, not convicted.
0:31:15 > 0:31:18But if he ended up going back there and got convicted,
0:31:18 > 0:31:20he'd be going to prison for some time.
0:31:20 > 0:31:24So I would imagine it has put him very much on the back foot and
0:31:24 > 0:31:26apprehensive about what lies ahead.
0:31:31 > 0:31:33Out on the streets of West Yorkshire,
0:31:33 > 0:31:38PC Dave Lockwood is also hunting for fugitives wanted in other countries.
0:31:41 > 0:31:44Hello. It's the police, can I come in, please?
0:31:44 > 0:31:49Earlier, he narrowly missed catching a Romanian fraudster.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51No, she go to holiday.
0:31:51 > 0:31:52- She is on holiday?- Yes.
0:31:52 > 0:31:55- She's not in there?- No, no.
0:31:55 > 0:31:59But he's convinced he has his next target clearly in his sights.
0:32:00 > 0:32:02The interesting thing with this case is it's only just been received in
0:32:02 > 0:32:06our office today. And come to me a couple of hours ago.
0:32:06 > 0:32:09And all the intelligence is totally bang up-to-date,
0:32:09 > 0:32:11so I'm really confident with this address.
0:32:12 > 0:32:17Patryk Fornalski is wanted in Poland for violent offences.
0:32:17 > 0:32:19He's been convicted of assault and robbery.
0:32:20 > 0:32:26Along with other people, he has attacked three males.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28These three males have all been
0:32:28 > 0:32:31physically assaulted and property, money,
0:32:31 > 0:32:32has been stolen from two of them.
0:32:32 > 0:32:34This is a picture we hold here in West Yorkshire.
0:32:37 > 0:32:38Obviously, tattoos on the neck.
0:32:38 > 0:32:41Warning markers for violence. I'm not going to mess around
0:32:41 > 0:32:43with this lad, not going to take any chances if he's there.
0:32:43 > 0:32:45Not give him an opportunity to think.
0:32:50 > 0:32:53Yeah. Don't know which house it is yet.
0:32:53 > 0:32:55Dave makes his way to the address,
0:32:55 > 0:32:58keeping a lookout for any sign of the target.
0:32:59 > 0:33:00End one.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05This is a high-risk offender, so backup is called in.
0:33:08 > 0:33:12When they arrive at the front gate, Dave sees a man through the window.
0:33:12 > 0:33:14He's seen us as well.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16But he's also spotted David.
0:33:16 > 0:33:18There's no time to waste.
0:33:18 > 0:33:21Two officers quickly head to the back of the property,
0:33:21 > 0:33:23while Dave goes to the front door.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33There's a dog.
0:33:33 > 0:33:34Side door.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38The other officers have spotted someone.
0:33:38 > 0:33:40Dave rushes round to the back door.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48Is the dog secure?
0:33:50 > 0:33:51Dog secure?
0:33:53 > 0:33:56They go inside and confront the man in the kitchen.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02- Hello. You all right? What's your name?- Patryk.
0:34:02 > 0:34:04- Patryk. And your last name? - Fornalski.
0:34:04 > 0:34:06Fornalski. I've got some bad news for you.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08There's a warrant been issued for your arrest.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11- Why?- OK. I'll explain it all to you in a minute.
0:34:11 > 0:34:13Just put these handcuffs on.
0:34:13 > 0:34:17With his history of violence, Dave is taking no chances.
0:34:17 > 0:34:21- Who do you live here with? - My girlfriend, my daughter.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24- And my friends.- OK. You are under arrest for a European arrest warrant
0:34:24 > 0:34:26for an offensive robbery and offensive assault,
0:34:26 > 0:34:29which occurred in 2010. You do not have to say anything, but anything
0:34:29 > 0:34:32you do say may be given in evidence. Go in to the living room.
0:34:32 > 0:34:34- Take a seat.- My daughter, she is upstairs.
0:34:34 > 0:34:35OK, we don't want to disturb your daughter.
0:34:35 > 0:34:38Take a seat. We'll just slow everything down, OK?
0:34:38 > 0:34:40You are probably panicking, wanting to do a thousand things.
0:34:40 > 0:34:43All right. You have been arrested on a European arrest warrant,
0:34:43 > 0:34:45which means you are going to be coming with me to the
0:34:45 > 0:34:47police station, once we've got things sorted here.
0:34:47 > 0:34:50You'll be going to court tomorrow and we'll sort things out then.
0:34:50 > 0:34:52How old is your daughter that's upstairs?
0:34:52 > 0:34:55- Two years.- Two years?- Yeah. - And your partner is at work?
0:34:55 > 0:34:58- Yeah.- So you'll need to ring your partner for her to come home to look
0:34:58 > 0:35:01- after your daughter.- Yeah. Tell me why.- In 2010,
0:35:01 > 0:35:05they are saying you and some other people have carried out a robbery on
0:35:05 > 0:35:08three people. You beat three people up, stolen property from them.
0:35:08 > 0:35:10- That's not me.- Right.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13- You understand that.- That's for you to argue what the courts with the
0:35:13 > 0:35:15Polish authorities, isn't it?
0:35:15 > 0:35:17- Yeah, yeah.- Do you understand why they want you to go back?
0:35:17 > 0:35:22- I don't know.- They want you to go back to go to prison in Poland.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24- In Poland. - For these two offences, yeah.
0:35:24 > 0:35:26- Can you show me that? - Yeah, it's in English, this bit.
0:35:26 > 0:35:30Can you read that? They are saying that is the sentence imposed...
0:35:30 > 0:35:32- Two years? - That's what you were given.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34And they are saying that's what you've got left to do.
0:35:34 > 0:35:35Sorry, what is this?
0:35:35 > 0:35:38Sentence... That is saying you've been found guilty at court...
0:35:38 > 0:35:42- Yeah.- ..and it were two years for the robbery and six months for the
0:35:42 > 0:35:45- assault.- Yeah.- And it says here you've got one year,
0:35:45 > 0:35:48eight months and 28 days left to do.
0:35:48 > 0:35:51So my job here was to find you.
0:35:51 > 0:35:52All right, I understand everything.
0:35:52 > 0:35:57But tomorrow at court, you'll get an interpreter, you'll get a solicitor,
0:35:57 > 0:35:59and it's down to you and your legal team to sort this problem out.
0:35:59 > 0:36:02OK. It doesn't mean you are going back to Poland.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04You may be able to appeal.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06But if you do lose, that is what the Polish want to do.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09- They want you to go back to prison in Poland, OK?- All right.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16Just stand there a second before you get in the car.
0:36:16 > 0:36:20This fugitive has been living here in the UK for five years,
0:36:20 > 0:36:22where he's started a new life.
0:36:24 > 0:36:26But the unspent conviction he left
0:36:26 > 0:36:30behind in Poland has now finally caught up with him.
0:36:30 > 0:36:33Patted his pants down, I'm happy with the rest.
0:36:35 > 0:36:39He was calm, yeah. His missus and the other lady in there,
0:36:39 > 0:36:41they were shaking and, obviously, his missus couldn't think.
0:36:41 > 0:36:44She were here, there and everywhere, trying to sort things out for him.
0:36:44 > 0:36:48So it's probably just torn that family apart.
0:36:48 > 0:36:52As Fornalski is taken to the police station and into custody,
0:36:52 > 0:36:54it's time for this fugitive to face
0:36:54 > 0:36:58the facts that he could be going back to jail in Poland.
0:37:02 > 0:37:06He'll spend the night in a police cell before being taken to court in
0:37:06 > 0:37:08- the morning...- Thanks.
0:37:08 > 0:37:12- Look after yourself.- ..where a judge will decide his fate.
0:37:18 > 0:37:22Some fugitives will go to great lengths to escape the law.
0:37:22 > 0:37:26None more so than convicted fraudster Martin Evans.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29In March 2000,
0:37:29 > 0:37:33he went on the run to avoid trial after conning hundreds of people to
0:37:33 > 0:37:36invest in a bogus ostrich breeding scam.
0:37:36 > 0:37:38He settled in Florida,
0:37:38 > 0:37:41reinventing himself as an international drug smuggler.
0:37:41 > 0:37:44Soon, he was making millions.
0:37:45 > 0:37:48People have described Martin as a likeable rogue, but there's no doubt
0:37:48 > 0:37:50that Martin is in it for the profit for himself.
0:37:50 > 0:37:52It was all about the money,
0:37:52 > 0:37:54it is all about making as much as he possibly could.
0:37:55 > 0:37:57Then, in 2001,
0:37:57 > 0:38:02he was caught travelling on a false passport and sent back to the UK.
0:38:02 > 0:38:06He was sentenced to a total of 21 years for fraud,
0:38:06 > 0:38:08drug trafficking and money laundering.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12After spending several years in prison,
0:38:12 > 0:38:15Evans was allowed out on a temporary licence.
0:38:15 > 0:38:18He was supposed to visit Swansea for the weekend.
0:38:18 > 0:38:22Instead, the con man took his chance and disappeared.
0:38:24 > 0:38:26A manhunt has been launched for a conman
0:38:26 > 0:38:28who's failed to return to prison.
0:38:28 > 0:38:3149-year-old Martin Evans from Pontarddulais
0:38:31 > 0:38:33swindled investors out of thousands of pounds.
0:38:35 > 0:38:37With Evans' record for globetrotting,
0:38:37 > 0:38:39the manhunt was a top priority for
0:38:39 > 0:38:44the agency responsible for tracking down British fugitives worldwide.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48This surveillance officer worked on the case.
0:38:49 > 0:38:53We know that his then girlfriend had gone to Cyprus,
0:38:53 > 0:38:56so we were quite happy that Martin had moved out of the country and
0:38:56 > 0:38:59probably gone via the continent and ended up in Cyprus.
0:39:02 > 0:39:05It was a shrewd destination for Evans.
0:39:05 > 0:39:07The north of the island is allied to Turkey
0:39:07 > 0:39:10and has no extradition treaty with the UK.
0:39:12 > 0:39:142,000 miles from British justice,
0:39:14 > 0:39:17Evans and his partner settled into island life.
0:39:19 > 0:39:21He was living in a villa, a rented villa,
0:39:21 > 0:39:24which he was paying quite a substantial amount for each month.
0:39:24 > 0:39:26He had his dogs there, he was using the gym,
0:39:26 > 0:39:29and obviously enjoying the weather.
0:39:29 > 0:39:32Evans stayed under the radar.
0:39:32 > 0:39:34Frustrated they couldn't get to him,
0:39:34 > 0:39:36the National Crime Agency teamed up
0:39:36 > 0:39:40with Crimestoppers to launch a public appeal in Cyprus.
0:39:41 > 0:39:45Investigators hoped the publicity would flush him out.
0:39:46 > 0:39:52He was featured within the local press on the island and there are
0:39:52 > 0:39:55expats there as well. So he would be thinking,
0:39:55 > 0:39:58"How long is it going to be before people actually pinpoint where I am
0:39:58 > 0:40:00"and they come and arrest me?"
0:40:00 > 0:40:04The Cypriot police also began keeping tabs on the Welshman.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25His cover was blown.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28Evans knew it was time to flee once more.
0:40:28 > 0:40:31And this time, his destination was half a world away.
0:40:32 > 0:40:34Johannesburg, South Africa.
0:40:36 > 0:40:37In late 2012,
0:40:37 > 0:40:41Martin Evans came here to start yet another new life for himself,
0:40:41 > 0:40:44once again using a false identity.
0:40:45 > 0:40:50My officers back here in Wales were still ploughing through data,
0:40:50 > 0:40:54still trying to find where he was.
0:40:54 > 0:40:56Working with the South African police,
0:40:56 > 0:41:01the NCA began to search the suburbs around Johannesburg in an attempt to
0:41:01 > 0:41:05pinpoint some potential addresses for the fugitive.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07We were able to give the South Africans
0:41:07 > 0:41:10a number of locations which culminated with them
0:41:10 > 0:41:13deploying surveillance teams and surveillance assets
0:41:13 > 0:41:16to be able to identify which properties he was at.
0:41:16 > 0:41:20He lived in a villa, socialised, mixed with people,
0:41:20 > 0:41:22and carried on with quite a nice lifestyle.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25But the net was closing in.
0:41:25 > 0:41:29South African police staked out an upmarket suburb,
0:41:29 > 0:41:31waiting for Evans to surface.
0:41:32 > 0:41:36In August 2014, while he was getting out of his car,
0:41:36 > 0:41:39armed police swooped in and arrested him.
0:41:39 > 0:41:41I don't think he put up much of a fight
0:41:41 > 0:41:44between heavily-armed surveillance South African operatives.
0:41:44 > 0:41:49At a Johannesburg court, a judge ordered his extradition.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52The epic flight from justice that began in south Wales
0:41:52 > 0:41:55finally ended in South Africa.
0:41:55 > 0:41:57It doesn't sound a huge thing when somebody has actually
0:41:57 > 0:42:00absconded from prison and left the UK, but when you are actually
0:42:00 > 0:42:03taking into account the criminal that Martin Evans was,
0:42:03 > 0:42:05it was satisfying to actually have him arrested
0:42:05 > 0:42:07and put back before the courts.
0:42:07 > 0:42:09Evans was brought back to the UK
0:42:09 > 0:42:12to finish the rest of his jail sentence.
0:42:12 > 0:42:16Probably part of him was relieved that he was coming back to the UK,
0:42:16 > 0:42:18but another part of him was leaving the good life
0:42:18 > 0:42:21in South Africa, which we know that he was enjoying immensely.
0:42:22 > 0:42:26During his years smuggling drugs into the UK,
0:42:26 > 0:42:30Evans was believed to have made more than £37 million.
0:42:31 > 0:42:36He'd spent it on luxury cars, yachts and villas, living the high life.
0:42:36 > 0:42:40But now, the game was up and he was brought back to where he belonged,
0:42:40 > 0:42:42a prison cell.
0:42:47 > 0:42:50Martin Evans served the rest of his sentence and was released on
0:42:50 > 0:42:53conditional licence in 2015.
0:42:55 > 0:42:59He still has to repay £5 million in criminal proceeds.
0:43:01 > 0:43:05The man arrested for allegedly taking part in a match fixing scam
0:43:05 > 0:43:09is currently on bail. He will appear in court again in the spring.
0:43:12 > 0:43:16The woman Dave and Tom were searching for was arrested
0:43:16 > 0:43:19six days later and has now been extradited back to Romania.
0:43:22 > 0:43:25Patryk Fornalski remains in custody,
0:43:25 > 0:43:28whilst the courts decide if he should be sent to Poland to serve
0:43:28 > 0:43:30his time for theft and assault.
0:43:34 > 0:43:36And Francesco dos Santos -
0:43:36 > 0:43:39who denies both charges of murder and attempted murder -
0:43:39 > 0:43:43is currently appealing against his extradition to Brazil.