Ukrainian arrested for buying and selling organs

[Larry1]

KIEV, January 3 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian prosecutors have sent to court a criminal case against a man accused of organizing the trafficking of Ukrainian organ donors to Ecuador, Costa Rica and Sri Lanka.

The suspect, an unnamed resident of the Ternopil region in western Ukraine, allegedly searched for healthy young people with serious financial difficulties and offered them to become kidney donors for $10,000, Ukraine’s Prosecutor’s General Office said in a statement on Thursday. The alleged criminal managed to traffic at least six people, and was paid $2,000 for each one, the statement said.

He supplied the potential donors with all needed papers and passed them over to his accomplices who organized the donor surgeries, according to the prosecutors. The donors were operated at medical centers of Ecuador, Costa Rica and Sri Lanka.

http://en.rian.ru/crime/20130103/178563557.html

The laws of nearly every nation ban the sale of organs.  Often it is allowed to pay the medical expenses of an organ donor but nothing in addition to that.  Are these laws good?  They create a shortage of organs for transplant to people who need these organs to live.  And, to use kidneys as an example, I understand that one can live a normal and healthy life with only one kidney.  A person who is facing horrendous financial difficulties might want to sell one of his kidneys for transplant.  But these laws prevent him from doing so.

[Vinnvinny]

I thought this was going to be about the black market in used Hammond's.

[Larry1]

I thought this was going to be about the black market in used Hammond's.

Or it could have been an entirely different direction.  Instead of the apocryphal story about the guy waking up in a bathtub covered in ice water with a kidney missing, the guy could have awoken in a bathtub covered in ice water with his ...

[mendeleyev]

I'm certain that you fine gentlemen will agree that few things quite sow disharmony and dischord in a society like the sale of used organs.

[I/O]

I'm certain that you fine gentlemen will agree that few things quite sow disharmony and dischord in a society like the sale of used organs.

Groan..................

[anm8tr]

Hostel 3?

[Larry1]

I'm certain that you fine gentlemen will agree that few things quite sow disharmony and dischord in a society like the sale of used organs.

I have to agree.

[Eduard]

I thought this was going to be about the black market in used Hammond's.

If you don't stop this I will start a thread: "An Englishman arrested for buying and selling pianos in Ukraine".

[Shadow]

I did try once to donate an organ to the hospital, but they sent me to the nearest church..

[Eduard]

I did try once to donate an organ to the hospital, but they sent me to the nearest church..

was it an electronic or a pipe one?

[SANDRO43]

but they sent me to the nearest church..

The local venue for organised crime ?