An international organ trafficking ring that allegedly sold kidneys to patients in Israel and Eastern Europe was broken up by Costa Rica police and Interpol.
Police arrested Francisco Jose Mora, a doctor at San Jose’s Calderon Guardia Hospital, still in his white lab coat.
World News – Just for future knowledge if you are passing through customs somewhere and involved in organ trafficking be it as a patient or a donor, it i probably not a good idea to tell the customs officer you are there to get a new kidney instead of on vacation…but if you are dumb enough to do this you really cannot expect an intelligent answer when asked “what is the purpose of your trip to Israel?”
Border control officers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport were instrumental in exposing the organ trafficking ring operating between Israel and Costa Rica last week, Costa Rican officials said over the weekend.
Still clad in his white lab coat, Dr. Francisco José Mora was marched out of his office at San José’s Calderón Guardia Hospital on Tuesday morning by three agents from the Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ).
He was caught with a forged passport as he disembarked an Alitalia flight from Boston.
Whenever I see a documentary on the holocaust, I ask how such a thing could happen over a six-year period between 1939 and 1945, apparently with very few people knowing about it.
They now say that doctors in India later removed her organs to hide the cause of the schoolgirl's death - and there was a hasty cover-up when medics realized they could not extract her organs in time.
Local laws punish drug trafficking more severely than human trafficking. The sale of drugs carries penalties of between five and 15 years, while trafficking of persons for sexual exploitation is punished with a maximum sentence of eight years, with work release allowed.
