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Japan - Doctor, gangster arrested for trading kidney

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Doctor, gangster arrested for trading kidney

Tokyo police have arrested five people, including a doctor and members of a crime syndicate on suspicion of trying to illegally trade a kidney......
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Thursday, June 23, 2011 21:58 +0900 (JST)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/23_38.html

Organ revelation tied to greed

A scheme to arrange an illegal kidney transplant fell apart when the gangster who brokered the deal demanded more money, according to investigative sources, ultimately prompting the man who needed the operation to contact police......

.....Patients wait for years
The health ministry office on organ transplant issues began gathering information Thursday as the alleged deal came to light......

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110623005796.htm

Warrants sought over organ deal / Police: 10 mil. yen paid to secure kidney donor

Police on Thursday requested an arrest warrant for a Tokyo hospital director suspected of paying a gang member 10 million yen to find a kidney donor for the director, according to sources.....

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110623005217.htm

Doctor, gang member face arrest over organ donation deal

Police are poised to arrest a 55-year-old doctor and four other suspects over suspicions that the doctor paid a yakuza gang member and other parties 10 million yen in exchange for an organ that he needed for a transplant, it has been learned......

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2011/06/23/20110623p2a00m0na015000c.html

Doctor, gangster, 3 others held for alleged attempt to trade kidney

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Police on Thursday arrested five people, including a doctor, a gangster and a former gang member, on suspicion of conspiring to illegally trade a kidney and faking an adoption between 2009 and 2010.....

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2011/06/24/20110624p2g00m0dm026000c.html
 
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Hospital fails to detect fake adoption for illegal kidney transplant deal

The June 23 arrest of five over a deal for a kidney transplant, including a doctor and former yakuza gangster, has raised fears of inadequate donor screening and organized crime involvement in live-donor organ transplants.......
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http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2011/06/24/20110624p2a00m0na012000c.html

Yakuza member, bar owner open up on illicit kidney deal the interview

Police on June 23 arrested five people including 50-year-old yakuza member Kazuhisa Takino and his common-law wife, 37-year-old bar employee Hitomi Sasaki, on suspicion of mediating a kidney sale for doctor Toshinobu Horiuchi.........

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2011/06/24/20110624p2a00m0na019000c.html

Potential donor received meager payment in kidney scandal

A former gangster who was prepared to donate his kidney received only several hundred thousand yen out of a 10 million yen payment, fueling suspicion that much of the money went to a member of a major crime syndicate who brokered the deal, investigative sources said.........
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http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2011/06/24/20110624p2a00m0na021000c.html
 
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Proposal to ban live-donor organ transplants between newly adopted family members

Organ donations from people adopted by their recipients would not be acceptable for at least several years after their adoptions, a new ethics policy to be revised by the Japan Society for Transplantation (JST) has proposed, the Mainichi has learned......

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2011/06/29/20110629p2a00m0na009000c.html

Doctor's arrest in kidney trade unveils problems with organ transplants

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The arrest of a 55-year-old Tokyo man in a kidney trade case on June 23 came as a shock for many not just because the man allegedly attempting to get a kidney replacement was a physician but also because the doctor, who many would assume to uphold high ethical standards, was collaborating with gangsters to fake an adoption to obtain the organ.......

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2011/06/30/20110630p2g00m0dm004000c.html
 
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related news

5 cases of kidney transplants between adopted parents and children reported

At least five cases of living-donor kidney transplant operations were conducted between adopted parents and children at four medical institutions over the past five years, according to an investigation conducted by an academic society........

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2011/10/11/20111011p2a00m0na014000c.html

my investigation image.......
"you accepted money from donor?"
"No"

that's all
 
Re: Japan - Doctor, gangster arrested for trading kidney

Investigative journalist Scott Carney has spent five years on the ground tracing the lucrative and deeply secretive trade in human bodies and body parts?a vast hidden economy known as the "red market" (legal and illegal trade in organs, living children, human bones, blood, embryos and surrogate pregnancy)

Healthy body value in red market: $250,000

The red market : on the trail of the world's organ brokers, bone thieves, blood farmers, and child traffickers (2011) by Scott M. Carney
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/10/136931615/blood-bones-and-organs-the-gruesome-red-market
 
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