Police say organ scam gang boss arrested
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POLICE in India say they have arrested the suspected leader of an illegal organ donation racket run out of one of the country’s top hospitals.
T Rajkumar Rao is being held in Kolkata on suspicion of leading a criminal gang that lured poor people to sell their kidneys, which were sold on for huge profits.
The commercial trade of organs is illegal in India and the gang forged documents to pretend the donors were relatives of transplant patients in order to undergo the operations at the Apollo hospital.
An officer in Kolkata said Rao was wanted in a number of such cases across several South Asian countries.
Police also arrested three donors including a couple who sold their kidneys for a combined 700,000 rupees (US$10,500) to pay off a loan they took out to cover their son’s medical treatment.
Five staff at the Apollo hospital are also under arrest.
Apollo has denied any role in the scam, saying it had been a “victim of a well-orchestrated operation to cheat patients and the hospital.”
It said it had set up an independent inquiry committee to advise on safeguards.
Millions of Indians suffer from kidney disease, mostly because of high rates of diabetes. But a chronic shortage of organs has fueled a black market.
Just 3,000 organs are donated annually against a demand for more than 500,000.
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