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4 kidney brokers get jail terms in Jiangxi
By Li Qian |
January 17, 2013, Thursday
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FOUR people were sentenced to prison on Tuesday for rounding up ten kidney sellers and housing them in a rented house to wait for transplant surgeries, today's Jiangnan Daily reported.
Two convicts, Deng Kaijun and Li Shengchang, met each other in 2009 when they were so cash-strapped that both wanted to sell their kidneys, said the Poyang County People's Court in Jiangxi Province.
In April 2012, Deng asked Li to join him in the lucrative organ-trafficking business by working as go-betweens. They found two more partners who paid them 17,000 yuan (US$2,735) as shareholders.
They posted ads on QQ, a popular social networking website, and provided intended kidney sellers food and accommodation in their rented house in Poyang. Meanwhile, they frequented dialysis wards in hospitals around the country looking for buyers.
A seller would earn 30,000 to 50,000 yuan for a kidney but a broker could earn as much as 280,000 yuan in commission, the police said.
Police raided their house in July and saved 10 young sellers aged 18 and 27, including two students from well-known universities.
Deng was sentenced to four years in jail. Li and another man got a two-year term while the fourth man was given a six-month sentence, the paper said.
Two convicts, Deng Kaijun and Li Shengchang, met each other in 2009 when they were so cash-strapped that both wanted to sell their kidneys, said the Poyang County People's Court in Jiangxi Province.
In April 2012, Deng asked Li to join him in the lucrative organ-trafficking business by working as go-betweens. They found two more partners who paid them 17,000 yuan (US$2,735) as shareholders.
They posted ads on QQ, a popular social networking website, and provided intended kidney sellers food and accommodation in their rented house in Poyang. Meanwhile, they frequented dialysis wards in hospitals around the country looking for buyers.
A seller would earn 30,000 to 50,000 yuan for a kidney but a broker could earn as much as 280,000 yuan in commission, the police said.
Police raided their house in July and saved 10 young sellers aged 18 and 27, including two students from well-known universities.
Deng was sentenced to four years in jail. Li and another man got a two-year term while the fourth man was given a six-month sentence, the paper said.
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