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The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested five members of a social media-based illegal kidney trading racket including its leader.
This racket used to collect kidneys illegally from poor people luring them of money and sell those kidneys to the people who require transplantation at price ranging between Tk 15 lakh and Tk 20 lakh.
A little portion of the amount goes to the poor kidney donor and the rest is shared among the racket.
The racket has sold more than 100 kidneys to acute kidney patients undergoing treatment in neighbouring countries.
RAB’s legal and media wing director Commander Khandaker Al Moin said they busted the ring in Dhaka Jaipurhat on Monday night at arrested the five.
During the raids, RAB members seized four passports of the kidney “donors”, several documents related to passports and visas for medical treatment, five mobile phones, and some local and foreign currencies, he said in a press briefing on Tuesday.
The arrestees are – the gang’s leader Md Shahriar Imran Ahmed, 36, his accomplices Md Mehedi Hassan, 24, Md Saiful Islam, 28, Md Abdul Mannan, 45, and Md Tajul Islam alias Taju, 38.
Moin said that Imran established a brokerage network in collaboration with the kidney buy-sell ring based in India. They later used two Facebook pages — “Bangladesh Kidney and Liver Patient Medical Services” and “Kidney Liver Medical Services” — for communicating with patients and donors.
Moin said Imran used to take Tk 5 to Tk 10 lakh per kidney transplantation, and each of Mannan and Tajul used to take Tk 3 lakh to Tk 5 lakh for arranging donors.
He said Saiful and Mehedi used to prepare passports, medical visas and other documents required for kidney donors for travelling to neighbouring countries through forgery. They used to take Tk 10,000 to Tk 20,000 per person.
The racket did not provide the donors with any money receipt, or any documents they prepared through forgery so that any aggrieved donor cannot show any proof of the deal.
They used to give a little amount to the donors and later intimidated them to keep them silent, said Moin
