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Interpol is searching for Jean-Claude Mas, the 72-year-old founder of Poly Implant Prothese, which sold implants full of industrial silicone to women all over the world –moncler jackets including some 40,000 in the UK. Detectives in Costa Rica revealed that Mas was facing prison for driving under the influence of alcohol last year, but said he absconded before his trial. A police spokesman added: ‘It was a very serious offence, but we cannot provide any more details at this stage.’ It came as Patrick Baraf, a plastic surgeon in Paris, disclosed further details of Mas’s career. ‘He was a butcher and then he started making breast implants in [the French city of] Toulon,’ said Mr Baraf. ‘He effectively stopped his work as a butcher in 1991 to set up his laboratory.’ PIP went on to become the third biggest company in the global trade in breast implants.Cheap moncler women vest for sale, buy 2011 new style women moncler vest. Mr Baraf, who said he frequently met Mas at plastic surgery conferences around Europe, described PIP’s prices for implants as ‘unbeatable’. Investigators said the firm saved almost £1million a year by using industrial silicone instead of medical silicone in its implants. There are fears that the implants could cause health problems if they burst or leak, and the French government has offered to pay for women to have them removed. However, the Government’s chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies said: ‘Women with PIP implants should not be unduly worried. We have no evidence of a link to cancer or an increased risk of rupture.’ Mas also spent a few years as a wine merchant and was well-known as a poker player, but had been banned from a number of casinos. Mas’s lawyer, Yves Haddad, said his client was ‘devastated by cheap moncler moka sub-gloss black long jackets outlet the pain of the victims and the magnitude of the case’ but insisted Mas remained ‘confident that his product is not dangerous'.