Chinese police arrest 127 in organ trafficking bust
Chinese police have arrested 137 people, including 18 doctors, in the latest crackdown on human organ trafficking.
Chinese police have arrested 137 people, including 18 doctors, in the latest crackdown on human organ trafficking. The Ministry of Public Security also said that 127 organ suppliers were rescued in raids in late July.
The suspects illegally recruited suppliers over the internet, facilitated the deals and made huge profits from the transactions, which had endangered the health of the suppliers and placed a heavy financial burden on the recipients. “The suspects usually used fake identities to recruit healthy candidates from the internet and put them under secret confinement separated from the outside world,” a Ministry of Security statement said.
About 1.5 million Chinese are said to need organ transplants, but only around 10,000 are performed annually due to a lack of donors. The gap has generated an organ trafficking industry, which seems to flourish even though the sale of organs was declared illegal last year. ~ London Telegraph, Aug 5
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