Global kidney racket busted in Telangana

The perpetrator of the crime is a 22-year-old hotel management student Kasparaju Suresh who has been arrested and has been taken under custody, where the police is trying to get more details.

“He (Suresh) wanted to lead a lavish life by making money by selling his kidney”, said S. Sudhakar, a senior police officer from Nalgonda district in Telangana state.

Suresh reportedly came across a website, ineedkidney.com, in November 2014 and through the site went for tests to Gujarat.

In a Colombo hospital, one of Kasparaju’s kidneys was removed and he received Rs Five lakh for it from a client, says an NDTV report.

Realising this is a lucrative business, this student turned organ trafficking agent himself. With the aid of agents in Gujarat, he secured a passport and visa and then travelled to Colombo, Sri Lanka. The money was sent through online bank transfers by recruiting agents to the paid donors and the agents, who trafficked them to Colombo.

Further investigation was on to nab other accused agents and paid donors, including from Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi, besides Tamil Nadu, who were among the 15 persons, trafficked by Suresh to sell their kidneys, Duggal 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. All three were young donors.Hafeez’s family was unable to understand how the youngster, despite quitting his job, was able to afford a auto. They picked up a fight with Suresh, leading to the police being alerted.

Three hospitals in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo are suspected to be involved in the illegal trade, police said, with potential donors lured through social networks such as Facebook and WhatsApp. Cases has been registered and investigation is underway.