A doctor in India was arrested for running one of the biggest illegal organ selling operations in the world.  His name is Dr. Amit Kumar and he has been charged with stealing kidneys from the poor and selling to the rich.  It is estimated that he has stolen between 500 and 600 kidneys in total.  Dr. Kumar’s customers consisted of wealthy Indians and foreigners.  In the recent arrest, they found five foreigners awaiting kidney transplants, out of which two were American.

The scam went as follows.  Victims were promised a job and were asked to go to a private house to sign paperwork, etc.  Once they entered the house, they were held at gunpoint and forced to sell their kidney.  Victims were then given an injection and lost consciousness.  When they woke up, surgery had already been done and the kidney was taken.  The transplants actually occurred in the private house which had a state of the art operation room.  The victims were given around 50,000 rupees ($1,300) for their kidney and some were paid even more to keep quiet.

Dr. Kumar was apprehended in Nepal where he was fleeing from the police.  He has denied all allegations and will be in court shortly.  Below is a news report on this incident.

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