A kidney racket has been busted in Nalgonda district of Telangana. The kingpin is a 22-year-old hotel management student. He initially sold his own kidney for Rs 5 lakh in December 2014. The transplant took place in Colombo.
Realising this is a lucrative business, this student turned organ trafficking agent himself. He used social media to lure 15 others to give their kidney. He himself led a lavish lifestyle with the money he gathered.
Clients were charged up to Rs 27 lakh for each kidney, the donor got 5 lakh rupees. The rest of the money was shared between hospitals in Colombo and trafficking agents from Telangana, Gujarat, MP. And the remaining money was for the travel, accommodation and medical tests.
On the modus operandi of the accused, Duggal said, “Suresh after selling his kidney, learnt the tricks of this evil trade and had been forwarding copies of passports of kidney-selling aspirants to different agents.”
Such agents in turn used to get the kidney-selling donors medically tested in Gujarat and trafficking them to different hospitals in Colombo where the recipient patients were going and getting their kidneys transplanted, the SP said.
Police said that the sale of kidneys was going on clandestinely through online and social networks. The money was sent through online bank transfers by recruiting agents to the donors and the agents who transferred them to Colombo, they said.
In each kidney sale and transplant transaction the agents were charging the kidney-recipient a sum of Rs 27 lakh out of which surgery package given to hospital for each surgery was Rs 13 lakh and medical tests of donors and recipients were costing Rs 1.5 lakh, they said.
Accommodation and travel would cost about Rs 2 lakh while donor received Rs 5 lakh and trafficking agent such as Suresh were paid Rs 50,000 (for each kidney sold), police said.
