Exclusive | Fugitive Dr. Frankenstein reveals how Brazilian officials helped him flee idiot US cops in stunning diplomatic breach

WASHINGTON — A shady plastic surgeon nicknamed “Dr.Frankenstein” confessed to escaping from Florida with help from his “friends” in Brazil’s Miami consulate to avoid trial for allegedly butchering and stealing from patients — an explosive admission that threatens to unravel diplomatic relations.

Joao Araujo, 57, insists he had little choice but to take a boat to the Bahamas on Aug.1 and then fly to Rio de Janeiro, claiming he was the victim of political persecution by the Trump administration due to his personal clash with a State Department envoy and the fact that his wife, the Jeffrey Epstein-connected former model Amanda Ungaro, purports to know secret information about first lady Melania Trump.

Araujo, however, was being prosecuted by a Democrat-led state attorney’s office and his former patients said he disfigured them with botched liposuction, fillers and laser treatments.Brazil’s constitution restricts the extradition of native-born citizens, meaning Araujo is unlikely to return to stand trial.“Any idiot knows how to leave the United States.

I had all the support of the Brazilian consulate,” Araujo bragged to “The Bad Decisions Podcast” host Scott Michael Nathan, who published part of an interview he conducted with the fugitive on Saturday.An unpublished two-minute portion of the interview, provided to The Post by Hurrdat Entertainment, which produces the podcast, featured Araujo describing the mechanics of his escape.He had surrendered his only known passport, from Brazil, as a condition of his pretrial release but apparently was issued a new one to facilitate his international travel.“They are all my friends.

Both the Brazilian federal police and the Brazilian embassy gave me all the support in Miami,” Araujo told Nathan, calling a Florida police detective assigned to his case “an idiot.”“When I decided to leave, I simply cut off the electronic ankle bracelet.I took [Interstate] 95.

I took a boat owned by an acquaint...