Dr. Bumbum: A Brazilian plastic surgeon arrested in Rio after the death of the patient

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A famous Brazilian plastic surgeon known as Dr. Bumbum was arrested after four days of flight after the death of one of his patients

Police say Dr. Denis Furtado was arrested in Rio de Janeiro.

His patient Lilian Calixto died after injections he gave her to enlarge her buttocks.

Dr. Furtado is charged with murder. Her mother was also arrested and is accused of being an accomplice. The investigators claim that Dr. Furtado arrested Ms. Calixto, 46, a mother of two, at her home in Rio de Janeiro. de Janeiro, but she became ill during the procedure.

Dr. Furtado took her to the hospital where her condition worsened and she died a few hours later, police said. Local media reported that she arrived at the hospital suffering from an abnormally fast heart rate.

Dr. Furtado then disappeared. On Wednesday, his lawyer said he was innocent and did not go to the police because he was panicking.

In a video posted on social networks after his arrest Thursday, Dr. Furtado said that Ms. Calixto's death was a "fatal accident". and he said that he had performed 9,000 such procedures and that they were legal in Brazil.

The 45-year-old has appeared on Brazilian television and has nearly 650,000 followers on his Instagram account.

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Lilian Calixto went to Dr. Furtado's apartment for the procedure to improve his buttocks

Ms. Calixto left her home in Cuiabá, central Brazil, to undergo a buttock on Saturday night, according to the report.

The procedure, supposed to involve the injection of acrylic glass, took place at his home. apartment in the upscale neighborhood of Barra de Tijuca

Police said that Dr. Furtado's girlfriend had been arrested because she was suspected of participating in the proceedings.

The Regional Medical Council of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Cremerj) said it had opened an investigation into the death of Ms. Calixto

Niveo Steffen, president of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery, said that There was "We can not perform plastic surgery in an apartment," he told the AFP news agency

"Many people sell a dream, a fantasy to patients in a manner contrary to the ethic and people, weakened, are often attracted to low prices, without wondering if the conditions are adequate. "

Dr. Furtado has great popularity online across various social media accounts.

Apart from his popular Instagram page, he's also very active on Facebook – filling out his page with before-and-after shots of buttocks – and on YouTube, where he's giving advice on everything from l & # 39; endometriosis to low carbohydrate diets.

In a message on social media, he stated that Dr. Bumbum's name had been given to him by his clients and that he had adopted it as a term of affection