Indonesian police are investigating the illegal trade of human organs involving police and immigration officers who were accused of helping traffickers send 122 Indonesians to a hospital in Cambodia to sell their kidneys.
Indonesian authorities arrested 12 people, including a police officer and an immigration officer, on July 19, said Jakarta police director for general crimes Hengki Haryadi. Police will continue to crack down on human smuggling syndicates conducting the illegal trade of human organs, he said.
Nine of the suspects were former organ trade victims who were accused of luring people from across Indonesia through social media into having their kidneys removed in Cambodia. A tenth suspect was accused of sending them to Preah Ket Mealea Hospital in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, for kidney transplant surgery.
The immigration officer from Bali was accused of abusing his power and falsifying documents for victims to travel overseas and received at least 3 million rupiah for each person he smuggled to Cambodia.The suspects were charged with violating Indonesia’s human trafficking law and face a maximum 15 years in prison and a fine of up to 600 million rupiah .
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