Child rapist migrant wanted in 190 countries found working on farm | World | News

A child rapist migrant at the centre of a worldwide manhunt and wanted in 190 countries has been arrested after he was found working on a farm. Brazilian Renivaldo Figueiredo Lima has been on the run for almost 15 years after he fled his homeland in 2012 shortly before being convicted of raping a child.

Lima was the subject of an Interpol Red Notice – which means cops from the organisation’s 190 member states are asked to arrest the suspect if they spot him. The Irish Mirror reports Lima is now locked up in Dublin’s Cloverhill Prison following his arrest – and is set to be deported back to his home country in the coming weeks to finally face justice.

The Irish Mirror reports he was arrested after gardai (Irish police) were tipped off that he was working on a farm in County Cavan, close to the border with Northern Ireland.

Lima was arrested after officers from the Garda National Immigration Bureau established he was using false documents.

He has been in Cloverhill Prison since April awaiting a deportation order. It’s reported the order is likely to be executed in the coming weeks and Lima will soon be flown back to his native Campos Belos on north east Brazil.

Brazilian cops had been hunting Lima for more than a decade and earlier this year got Interpol, the world-wide policing agency with some 190 member countries, to issue the Red Notice against him.

Ireland has no extradition agreement with Brazil, so officers could not arrest him specifically over the Red Notice but he was detained over immigration offences.

A source told the Irish Mirror: “He (Lima) was not arrested for extradition as there is no treaty, but he is being held after Immigration arrested him that is for deportation.

“So, no matter what, he is going back to Brazil.”

The Red Notice was issued on April 7 and gardai arrested him on April 20 following the anonymous tip off. Reports first emerged of Lima’s arrest in Ireland in Brazilian media this week.