Japan NPO Head Arrested over Paid Organ Transplant Brokerage
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(Tokyo=Yonhap News) Correspondent Cho Seong-mi = For the first time since the Organ Transplantation Act was enacted in Japan in 1997, suspects who brokered illegal organ transplants overseas...
Japan NPO head arrested over paid organ transplant brokerage
The de facto head of a Japanese nonprofit organization and two other men were arrested Tuesday for allegedly brokering an organ transplant in Cambodia in exchange for compensation in violation of a relevant law, in the first case of paid organ transplant brokering overseas.
[Yomiuri Shimbun] The Metropolitan Police Department arrested three men, including Hiromichi Kikuchi (66), whose occupation is unknown, from Nakagawa, Tsuzuki Ward, Yokohama City, on the 7th on suspicion of violating the Organ Transplant Law (brokering for money), as there is strong suspicion that they brokered organ transplants in Cambodia and received payment for it.
On July 7, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested three men, including a 66-year-old suspect named Kikuchi Jintatsu, in Tokyo on charges of violating the Organ Transplantation Law. Kikuchi was sentenced in December 2023 for charging patients to travel to Cambodia for organ transplants. Foreign media reports indicate that a Chinese doctor performed the organ transplant.
It has been revealed that the former chairman of an NPO arrested for brokering organ transplant surgeries in Cambodia used most of the money he received to repay debts. Suspect Hitoshi Kikuchi (66) and others brokered a kidney transplant last year.
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