Sami Shem-Tov and Dmitry Orenstein allegedly made tens of thousands of dollars for each time they mediated between organ seller, buyer. Police know of at least 10 Israelis who agreed to donate kidney due to financial difficulties
...investigators waited for the two suspects, Sami Shem-Tov and Dmitry Orenstein, at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on Sunday. They are believed to have arrived there to perform a tissue analysis on two other people.
...Each such surgery would cost about $200,000. The operation would be performed abroad, mostly in South America or China.
... For each such mediation, Shem-Tov and Orenstein were said to have received tens of thousands of dollars.
...The people who sold their kidney received only a small part of this sum.
...According to the organ transplant law, organ trafficking and selling is forbidden. The law went into effect last year and since then the act is considered a criminal offense. Full story
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