The cosmetic surgeon murdered this Wednesday in cold blood with several shots to the head while he was working in the clinic he ran with his wife in Marbella, Alexander Aslani, had been dedicated to advanced body contour remodeling and facial plastic surgery for more than three decades and was a recognized international specialist in this field. His employees and colleagues refer to him as "a tireless worker and a great person", who dedicated most of his time to his patients.
It seems precisely with his profession that his murder would be related. The main hypothesis that the agents are considering is that it could be someone who was not satisfied with the result of some surgical intervention and that they executed him after shooting him several times in the head in broad daylight in his clinic, reports Efe. This internationally recognized surgeon had a wide portfolio of clients from different parts of the world, so it is being investigated whether any of them could be linked to illicit businesses.
His approach to medicine - as still indicated on his business website - focused on combining a comprehensive view of the body with surgical experience and technology, applying them to procedures such as buttock augmentation or high-precision liposculpture.
Distinguished for his contribution to aesthetic surgery, he was the creator of the Supercharged BBL, a technique recognized by Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS) in 2020, which combines cohesive buttock implants with own fat transfer. Previously, in 2016, he was awarded Best Plastic Surgeon in Spain by Medical & Corporate Livewire.
Aslani, who also took training courses, began his surgical training in the nineties at the King Edward Hospital in Durban, South Africa, where he completed a residency in plastic surgery and later, a cycle of advanced specialization in craniofacial surgery.
He continued his training in Europe, passing through highly technically demanding centers in Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom until in 2008 he ended up in Spain, at Quirón Salud. Between 2008 and 2018 he directed the Plastic Surgery departments of the group's hospitals in Malaga and Marbella, which they claim became international reference centers for advanced body contouring surgery.
In 2018 he decided to open Cirumed Clinic, a center created specifically to develop the surgical techniques in which he was a specialist, large volume liposculpture, fat transfer and procedures combined with implants.
Member of a family saga of renowned doctors, he was the son of one of the pioneers of modern mastectomy in Germany in the seventies, Dr. Amir Aslani. For Alexander, medicine was "a deep calling" that went beyond private practice.
His social commitment as an active member of Interplast led him every year to direct a pediatric plastic surgery mission in Calcutta, India, where he operated on dozens of underprivileged children with cleft lip, a congenital defect that results in a cleft of the upper lip and that in some more serious cases can include one or two complete clefts of the palate that go from the lip to the base of the nose.
It was precisely in the clinic facilities, located on the ground floor of the Panorama building, where his murderer found him and killed him.
It was shortly before 6:00 p.m. when the shooter arrived at the medical center, went directly to the office where Dr. Aslani was and fired several shots into his head. Up to three detonations were heard outside. It was an individual dressed in black, with his face covered, helmet and hood and he had arrived to the clinic on a motorcycle.
In the clinic were the employees, several patients and also the surgeon's wife, a member of the center's team and who, although she was dedicated to other aspects of aesthetic medicine, often accompanied him when he performed surgical interventions. This Wednesday was operations day and at Cirumed they were working at full throttle.
When the paramedics arrived, the surgeon was still breathing but he finally died as a result of the severity of the wounds caused by his killer's shots.
The National Police has already set out to arrest Aslani's executioner and is keeping an investigation open, which has been taken over by the UDEV-II Homicide group in Marbella, well known for its high case resolution rate.
The news has fallen like a bucket of cold water among the residents of Marbella and concern about the latest incidents with firearms that have taken place on the Costa del Sol is growing among citizens and authorities.
