Egypt’s top prosecutor on Tuesday referred 41 suspects to trial on criminal charges of illegally harvesting and transplanting human organs, as well as human trafficking. A statement from the public prosecutor’s office said that the suspects accumulated over LE20 million for brokering, harvesting and transplanting human organs, abusing their positions as civil servants. The Administrative Control Authority announced in December 2016 that it had detected the largest international network in the country for trafficking human organs. The network took advantage of the poor economic conditions of some Egyptians, trafficking their organs in exchange for little money, while profiting exorbitantly. The defendants were involved in 29 operations, illegally trafficking human kidneys.

Source: Egypt Independent July 05, 2017 09:00 UTC