Madeleine McCann: Police in Paraguay Says ‘Sightings’ of the Kidnapped Girl Are False

Claims that Madeleine McCann, a British girl who had disappeared in Portugal when she was 3, had been seen again in Paraguay was dismissed by local authorities.

A picture of three-year old British girl Madeleine McCann who went missing at the Ocean club apartment hotel in Praia de Luz , in Lagos. AFP/Getty Images

Private detective Miraz Ullah Ali Isa said that someone had tipped him off that missing girl Madeleine McCann had arrived in Portugal, he told ABC Color. 

“My team and i received the information that Madeleine arrived in Paraguay one or two months ago and is living in Areguá in the custody of a woman,” he said. 

A number of theories persist about what happened to Madeleine, ranging from her being killed by a burglar to being trafficked and sold to a childless couple. 

Parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann, Kate (L) and Gerry McCann (R) pose with an artist's impression of how their daughter might look at the age of nine ahead of a press conference in central London on May 2, 2012, five years after Madeleine's disappearance while on a family holiday in Portugal. LEON NEAL/AFP/GettyImages