7 Human Organ Transplant Syndicate In India Arrested, Rates Of IDR 5.8 Million In One Operation

Illustration of the operation process. (Unsplash-Natanael Melchor)

JAKARTA - The Indian police dismantled a network of illegal human organ transplants by arresting 7 people, including a doctor.

Delhi Police Commissioner Amit Goel said the donor and recipient of the human organ transplant organs came from Bangladesh, as did the perpetrators involved.

"We have arrested a person named Russell, who usually manages patients and donors, and a female doctor involved in the transplant has also been arrested," Goel said in a press conference, quoted from news agency ANI via Hindustan Times, Tuesday, July 9.

Goel said the transplant practice of this syndicate has been running since 2019. They set a fee for the patient once the operation reached 30 thousand rupees or around Rp. 5.8 million.

"They usually charge 25-30 bills for each transplant," Goel said.

According to him, the doctor who was arrested had a relationship with two or three hospitals.

"His role in this case is to facilitate organ transplants even consciously that donors and recipients are not blood relations, making them part of a conspiracy," he said.

Under the 2014 Indian Human Organs Transplant Law, organ donations are only allowed from people who have direct blood relations such as their parents and siblings.

No living donor in India can donate its organs to strangers unless they are close relatives of the recipient.