CBI begins process to find Kumar's foreign money

NEW DELHI: Amidst suspicion that Amit Kumar, alleged kingpin of the multi-crore rupee kidney transplant racket, may have stashed money abroad, CBI has initiated the process of sending Letters Rogatory to Canada, Greece and Turkey to get an estimate of the amount transferred overseas.

"We have initiated the process and soon we will be routing the Letters Rogatory through the designated court and later through the External Affairs Ministry to these countries," a senior CBI official associated with the probe said here on Wednesday.

Among other information, the CBI would like to know his property and other financial details of Kumar, who had several foreign patients, in Canada.

The Enforcement Directorate is already mulling charging Kumar with money laundering.

The CBI suspects Kumar had stashed a part of his earnings abroad. His family is also believed to be residing in that country.

The CBI also wants to know the name of the patients from Turkey and Greece who had come for kidney transplantation to Kumar and the mode of payment by them.

CBI sources said some donors had been examined by its sleuths and prima-facie it seemed they had been lured into selling their organs.

The agency has already booked Kumar and others under sections 420 (cheating), 342 (illegal confinement), 326 (causing grievous hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC and section 18 and 19 of Transplantation of Human Organs Act of 1994.