Following an Athens-based news report, the CBI is trying to get details about the arrest of three Greek women in connection with the multi-million-rupee illegal kidney transplant racket headed by Amit Kumar.
NEW DELHI: Following an Athens-based news report, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is trying to get details about the arrest of three Greek women in connection with the multi-million-rupee illegal kidney transplant racket headed by Amit Kumar.
The Athens News Agency had reported on Wednesday that three Greek women—a doctor and two businesspersons—had been arrested in Athens on suspicion of working in collusion with Amit Kumar. “A way is being worked out through proper channels (the ministry of external affairs) to get access to the women arrested,” a senior official said. The women are suspected to have sent Greek patients for surgeries in Kumar’s illegal clinic in Gurgaon.
Police alleged that at least 10 people in Greece were known to have died as a result of the surgeries, while the health of an unspecified number of others may have been permanently compromised due to post-operative complications and infections.
Police said the gang operated by seeking out kidney patients undergoing dialysis at various hospitals in Greece and then, knowing that their condition was incurable, persuaded them to undergo a kidney transplant in India. They then underwent blood tests to check their tissue compatibility with donors and the results were sent to the Indian clinic by the Greek doctor, who were part of an international ring operating in that country, police said.
A member of the Greek ring would then accompany the patients to India and lead them to hotels owned by the ring members so that they could be more easily pressurised for more money, ANA said quoting the police.
The agency quoted the Greek police as saying the patients were asked to pay at least 40,000 euros for the operation plus an additional 10,000 euros for accommodation and to speed up procedure. The three suspects had around 225,000 euros in their bank accounts believed to have been gained from the organ trade.
The Greek authorities were trying to ascertain how many of the transplant recipients have died due to these surgeries.
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