Take advantage of the plight of patients: 3 arrested on suspicion of trafficking and organ transplantation
Police raided company offices in Ramat Gan, suspected of detecting patients in need of organ transplants and offered to administer the medical procedure required for transplant abroad - in exchange for the payment of hundreds of thousands of shekels
During searches at the company's offices in Ramat Gan, various computer materials and documents were seized (Photo: Nir Landau)
Pistols, handcuffs and police car (Photo: Nir Landau, Walla system!)
Police arrested three suspects this morning, as well as three others, on suspicion of committing crimes involving trafficking and organ transplantation in violation of the law.
As part of a covert operation in Israel and abroad, those involved were arrested on suspicion of engaging in patients requiring organ transplants and offered to administer the medical procedure required for transplant abroad, in exchange for the payment of hundreds of thousands of shekels.
More in Walla! NEWS More in Walla! NEWSThe state president has shortened Nochi Dankner's imprisonment in four months
To the full articleMore in Walla! NEWS
Dozens of women and children in slavery conditions: 10 arrested on suspicion of operating a sect in Jerusalem Ari Nesher's mother Yitzhak Aspa: "You left him bleeding and bleeding" "Feeding the cat": The suspect's unusual request for threats from the North disappointed with your sex life? There is a natural solution with no side effects to promoted contentIt is suspected that the three have taken advantage of both the medical plight of dozens of patients in the country and the plight of disadvantaged populations in various countries of the world who are forced to donate their organs for money. The suspects, each according to his or her part, are attributed to trafficking and brokerage of organ trafficking, fraudulently obtaining aggravated circumstances, conspiracy to commit a crime and using a forged document. During the police raid, searches were carried out at the company's offices in Ramat Gan and various computer materials and documents were seized. The investigation is underway with the Israel Police, accompanied by the Central District Attorney's Office.
The police emphasized that alongside the criminal and economic offenses, there is a serious public health risk, since these are organs sold for money in various countries without proper medical conditions and without having undergone laboratory supervision and testing.
/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/KMEYMJKESBAZBE4MRBAM4TGHIQ.jpg)
