INTERPOL has commended the work of police officers in Indonesia following their arrest of an internationally wanted Czech national who is the subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice following his
alleged leading role in a wildlife smuggling network in Brazil.

This week’s arrest in Bali of the Czech fugitive, Ludek Hovorka, came after intensive investigative and surveillance work by Indonesian police officers who were able to locate and arrest him on the basis of the INTERPOL Red Notice and international law enforcement intelligence after he entered the country.

The operation followed extensive co-ordination between INTERPOL’s National Central Bureaus (NCBs) in Brasilia, Jakarta and Prague, and with the Czech Environmental Inspectorate, Austrian authorities and
INTERPOL’s Fugitive Investigative Support (FIS) unit at its General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon. INTERPOL’s NCBs in Malaysia and Qatar also took part in tracking the international movements of the suspect.

The international manhunt for the fugitive followed information received from the Czech police authorities which was then coordinated internationally by officers at INTERPOL’s Fugitive Investigative Support unit as they coordinated international operations to track the movements of the fugitive in liaison with the relevant National Central Bureaus.