Three down, two to go
Portugal’s PJ police have announced the arrest of a third fugitive following September’s mass jail break.
Operação RETORNO III
O evadido do Estabelecimento Prisional de Vale de Judeus, Shergili Farjiani, de 40 anos, foi recapturado, hoje, em Itália, pela @PJudiciaria depois de um persistente, complexo e ininterrupto trabalho de investigação e de recolha de informação. pic.twitter.com/MXxhbCel9y
— Polícia Judiciária (@PJudiciaria) December 10, 2024
Shergili Farjiani, a Georgian citizen and one of the five men who escaped from Vale de Judeus prison, was arrested on Tuesday in Padua, in northern Italy, by PJ police, who described the investigative work that has been underway since September 7 as “persistent, complex, and uninterrupted.”
The PJ worked in coordination with Italian authorities to locate the elusive fugitive, for whom a European arrest warrant and a Europol red notice had been issued. Farjiani is infamous for his “extensive criminal career,” marked by violent thefts and document forgery.
Farjiani had been serving a seven-year sentence for theft, violence, and forgery when he escaped. His arrest in Padua follows the earlier recapture of two fellow fugitives – Fábio Loureiro, from the Algarve, who was tracked down in Morocco, and Fernando Ferreira, caught in Trás-os-Montes.
Authorities will now focus on locating the final two fugitives: Argentine Rodolfo José Lohrmann, 59, described as “one of Argentina’s most wanted” and a veteran of prison escapes; Mark Cameron Roscalee, 39, from the UK, in jail for crimes of kidnapping and robbery.
