Porn king Pablo Lapiedra escaped extradition to Colombia on child prostitution charges for the second time in less than a year, reported newspaper El Tiempo Monday.
Lapiedra was captured in Hungary on the 23rd of December last year when he entered with a false passport just three days after he had jumped bail in Spain.
According to European media the Hungarian authorities had originally agreed to extradite the porn director, giving Colombian authorities 40 days to complete the paperwork and submit the request. However just over two weeks ago the Hungarian government notified Colombia’s Prosecutor General of the decision not to extradite the Spanish porn director.
“It is curious that the same government of Hungary who told us to send the request ….. don’t even know if the Spanish citizen is still in their country,” said a source from the Colombian prosecutor’s office according to El Tiempo.
The criminal case against famed European porn director Lapiedra began in 2008, when a rector in a Medellin high school noticed a disturbance among the students due to the appearance of a 16-year-old girl from the school in a triple-X rated film.
The girl said that she had been taken to an apartment in the posh Poblado area of Colombia’s second city Medellin the previous year where she recorded the explicit tape in exchange for money.
The minor told authorities that Lapiedra had known she was underage but that she had signed documents saying that she was over 18. The porn maker claimed the girl showed him fake documents to prove she was of legal age.
Colombia’s prosecution and police authorities started an investigation which resulted in several arrest warrants, including that of Lapiedra and his estranged Colombian wife Zuleidy Piedrahita, who was formerly the porn actress Little Lupe.
Piedrahita allegedly recruited the high school girls and is wanted in connection with child pornography and immigration violations in the U.S.
The Spanish native was captured in Barcelona in March 2011 and remained in prison until September 2011 when the national court in Spain authorized his extradition to face charges in Colombia. However Lapiedra was freed after posting bail of $135,000 and escaped authorities when he went on the run several months later.
If brought to Colombia Lapiedra could face 8 to 12 years in prison.