Five Indicted for Facilitating Illegal Organ Transplants in China

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Five Taiwanese citizens have been indicted for facilitating illegal organ transplants conducted in China. The ring had profited more than US$430,000 since 2016 by sending 10 Taiwanese patients to China for surgeries.

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00:00A surgeon and four accomplices have been indicted for allegedly conducting illegal organ transplants

00:05in China.

00:07Prosecutors allege the group was led by a surgeon who was based in Tsangkwa in central

00:11Taiwan.

00:12They made more than $430,000 U.S. dollars by sending 10 Taiwanese patients to China

00:17for organ transplant surgeries since 2016, some of whom died during the procedures.

00:22The surgeon is accused of personally conducting the surgeries in China and now faces a six-year

00:26prison sentence with up to three years for his accomplices.

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