Dubai: More than a hundred medical files were found in the villa of a "doctor", who was arrested for carrying out cosmetic surgeries allegedly without proper licence, and two disfigured victims were referred to Dubai Police to open a criminal case against him.

The medical files have been referred to the Health Authority to conduct their own investigations.

Two European victims, who were disfigured, were provided with the files to open a criminal case against the "fake surgeon" at Dubai Police, said Brigadier Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, Director of the General Department of Criminal Investigations of Dubai Police.

The American citizen, S.M. was arrested by Dubai Police for impersonating an American plastic surgeon of Hollywood stars and for conducting procedures on some women in a private villa leaving them with serious complications.

S.M., 41, has an Interpol alert issued against him since 2008 for carrying out surgeries without a medical licence and for smuggling medical drugs illegally into the United States, a police source said.

The suspect was initially arrested in 2008 by Sharjah Police because of the Interpol alert, he said. He was referred to Abu Dhabi where he was released as not request for his extradition arrived from America and as no criminal case was filed against him from within the country.

During the interrogations, S.M. told the investigative team from Dubai Police that following his release in Abu Dubai he got a villa in Bur Dubai, which he used to conduct cosmetic surgeries, the source said.

S.M. told the police he operated illegally so that he could provide his four children a decent life. Although he did not present any medical certificate or degrees, he told the police that his medical licence had been revoked in the US. He was caught impersonating Washington-based Dr Steven Hopping, who had performed surgery on Hollywood celebrities and was one of the top surgeons in the US.

The suspect performed liposuction on women and the operating conditions were so primitive that he discarded the removed fat into a cooking pot, Dr Jeehan Qadir, executive chairperson of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery Hospital, told Gulf News earlier. "The operation requires a special disposal machine which he did not have," she said.

Dr Qadir suspects that many women knew that he was not a certified doctor but went to him anyway as his charges were as low as Dh500.