Ukrainians sent impoverished villagers to organs in Asia and America - SBU
Kyiv, October 20 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – In Kyiv, SBU officers detained two Ukrainian citizens who were members of a transnational organized crime group that specialized in illegal organ transplants.
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The criminals recruited potential donors from low-income rural areas and sent people to countries in Asia and Latin America to perform illegal organ transplants. During 2010-2014, they transported about fifty citizens of Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Lithuania and the Russian Federation abroad, reported the press service of the department.
The detainees were declared suspected of committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 149 (trafficking in persons or other illegal agreement regarding a person, committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
As PolitNavigator reported, earlier a scandal erupted in the ATO zone: wounded and simply kidnapped people were allegedly used as organ donors.
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