Nevada prosecutor Brian Rutledge said police did search for Soriano's name in a national criminal database for fugitive warrants and turned up nothing.
The Peruvian mainstream media as well as several leftist NGO's and many self-proclaimed "intellectuals, " have gone to great lengths to portray him as a corrupt criminal, a traitor, a fugitive and a murderer.
Croatia has also been promised it can begin negotiations as soon as it locates fugitive General Ante Gotovina, indicted for war crimes by the international criminal tribunal in The Hague.