Organ trafficking ring run through India

[Chutney]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>While police forces around the world search for the Indian doctor who scammed hundreds out of their kidneys, his wife and children remain barricaded behind security doors at their Brampton home.

Interpol, the international police organization, last week issued a rarely used "red notice" warrant for Dr. Amit Kumar requesting his arrest anywhere on the planet.

Kumar, dubbed "Dr. Horror" by the Indian media where his story has led to nationwide revulsion, is alleged to be the kingpin of an underground kidney trafficking ring. Indian police believe the ring illegally harvested kidneys from as many as 500 unsuspecting Indians.

Most of the kidneys came from Indian labourers or farmers who say they were either duped, or forced at gunpoint, to give up a kidney.

The organs were then transplanted into wealthy clients, Indian or foreigners, in well-equipped underground clinics in residential areas.

It is illegal in India to sell a kidney; the Interpol warrant charges Kumar with "crimes against life and health" and being part of a criminal enterprise.

"If he has done what police say he did, I hope he gets punished severely," a Brampton neighbour told the Star.

Neighbours said Kumar, his wife Poonam Ameet, and their two boys, 5 and 4, moved into the area last April and the children attend a local private school.

Documents obtained by the Star show the couple bought the four-bedroom home on Pali Dr., in the predominantly Indian neighbourhood of Bovaird Dr. and Airport Rd., in April 2007 for $610,000.

"He told us he was a cardiovascular surgeon, with clients around the world, but he never once mentioned anything about kidneys."

Kumar, who Indian police say is not a surgeon, was last seen in Brampton before Christmas driving a leased $65,000 Lexus 350 SUV. While some found him "standoffish," others said he seemed to be up front and candid.</div>
<div align="center">Source: Toronto Star</div>


Man, that's sick and horrifying. I can't believe this dude lived like 10-15 minutes away from my house.

 

[Petey]

Has gotta be scary hearing about something like that in your 'backyard'.

This reminds me of those stories people tell to tourist. Seems like the guy decided to profit off the tales.

-Petey

 

[AEM]

What a sick bastard.

 

[Shapecity]

They caught the sick bastard.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>KATMANDU, Nepal - Police arrested the alleged mastermind of an India-based kidney transplant racket at a resort in southern Nepal, officials said Friday. Authorities said Amit Kumar ran the ring from a New Delhi suburb that allegedly removed kidneys from up to 500 poor laborers and sold their organs to wealthy clients.

Police suspect that dozens of doctors were involved in the kidney racket, which had a waiting list of some 40 people hailing from at least five countries.

Kumar was arrested in the jungle resort in Chitwan by Nepalese police on Thursday night, said Kiran Gautam, police chief in Chitwan district, about 100 miles south of Katmandu.

Gautam said Friday that Kumar has been being sent to Katmandu where officials will further investigate.

Indian embassy officials in Katmandu were not immediately available for comments early Friday morning.

Gautam said police have been looking for Kumar since reports surfaced in the Indian media that he might have fled to neighboring Nepal.

Police were able to identify him because his photographs had been published in newspapers and broadcast on Indian television channels, Gautam said.

Authorities said the scam, centered in Gurgaon — a posh suburb of New Delhi — used luxury cars outfitted with blood-testing machines to test donors on the fly as well as sophisticated surgical equipment hidden inside a residential neighborhood.

Kumar, who has several aliases, and has been accused in past organ transplant schemes elsewhere in India.</div>

Source: Yahoo News