Israeli arrested for allegedly running Ukraine organ trafficking ring

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According to Army Radio, the ring recruited potential kidney donors on the internet for which they paid $10,000 before sending the organs to Israel.

An Israeli man was arrested Friday for allegedly running an organ trafficking network in the Ukraine, Army Radio reported.
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The Israeli, whose name was not revealed, was arrested by Ukrainian police along with 12 other people.

According to the report, the network operated for over three years and searched for donors via the internet. Most of the donors were young women who agreed to sell them a kidney for $10,000.

The organs were then allegedly transferred to Israelis in need of a kidney transplant, which cost over $200,000, head of the Ukrainian organization for combating human trafficking said in a press conference following the arrests.


http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... g-1.306470
Ukrainian police estimated that the network made a gross sum of $ 40 million.

The facility in which the alleged operations for extracting the kidney took place denied the allegations.

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