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15 jailed for harvesting, selling dozens of kidneys
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FIFTEEN people, including doctors, have been sentenced up to 12 years in prison for illegally harvesting and selling more than 50 kidneys since 2010.
The group made more than 10 million yuan (US$1.62 million), Beijing Times reported today.
Anhui Province native Zheng Wei concocted the scheme and found people willing to donate a kidney as well as doctors to remove them at a clinic in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, the report said. The kidneys were then transported to a hospital in Beijing.
Zheng, 46, met doctor Ye, director of the urology department of a hospital in Beijing, at the end of 2009. Ye told Zheng that his department would lose its license to perform kidney transplants because they had not been doing very many such operations, according to the report.
The two agreed to work together to find patients who needed kidney transplants and people willing to donate a kidney, Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People?s Court heard during the trial.
The duo also found others to join the scheme. Doctors were paid 1,700 yuan to 2,500 yuan for each kidney operation, the report said.
The court sentenced Zheng to 12 years in prison on Wednesday, the newspaper said. The other defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 3.5 to 9 years.
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