NIA chargesheets 4 for trafficking organs from India to Iran

The donors and recipients were made to believe that organ trade is legal in Iran. The accused had forged several documents, seals and signatures of several government offices and officers to facilitate their illegal trade.

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NIA said the gang was involved in inducing gullible youths into donating their organs for money and trafficking the same to foreign nations mainly to Iran as part of a major organ trade racket. (File Photo)

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Saturday charge-sheeted four persons in connection with the transnational organ racket, busted in May by Ernakulam rural police.

The accused were identified as Sabith Korukulath Nasar, Sajith Shyam, Bellamkonda Ram Prasad. Madhu Jayakamar is still absconding. The NIA had taken over the probe in June considering the international ramification of the racket that operated under the guise of medical tourism.

NIA said the gang was involved in inducing gullible youths into donating their organs for money and trafficking the same to foreign nations mainly to Iran as part of a major organ trade racket.

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They would identify prospective organ donors in India to explain them by inducting and offering them money through agents and social media. The gang also approached Indian patients in need of transplantation and charged around Rs 50 lakh each from them to facilitate their organ transplantation in Iran.

The donors and recipients were made to believe that organ trade is legal in Iran. The accused had forged several documents, seals and signatures of several government offices and officers to facilitate their illegal trade.

The racket was busted on May 19 after police at Kochi international airport arrested Sabith, a native of Thrissur on his return from Iran. Police acted upon a tip off from the Bureau of Immigration. Sabith has been working at Farhikhtegan Hospital in Tehran as an assistant for kidney transplantation patients since 2019.

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