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Azerbaijani Prosecutor Generalâ€™s Office comments on Ukrainian Interior Ministryâ€™s reports about illegal transplant of human organs

20 May 2011 13:51 (UTC +04:00)

Spokesman for Prosecutor Generalâ€™s Office Eldar Sultanov told APA that it was made public that criminal case had been launched on the officials of the medical center under Azerbaijan International University over the facts on illegal transplant of the human organs.
â€œDepartment for Investigation of Grave Crimes at the General Prosecutorâ€™s Office is carrying out necessary investigations, but no one has been prosecuted criminally yet,â€ he said.

Chief of Ukrainian Interior Ministryâ€™s Main Investigation Department Vasili Farinnik said the investigation of the â€œblack transplantâ€ case is about to be completed.
He said 25 were recognized as sufferers over the case of â€œblack transplantâ€.
â€œThe facts of surgeries have been confirmed by documents. The doctors can not escape, because donors gave testimonies against them. Six have been prosecuted over the fact, three of them are doctors. All have been arrested. The doctors face charges over illegal transplants and also over the establishment of organized criminal group. The head of the group is the citizen of Israel, who does not have medical education,â€ he said.

Vasili Farinnik said the doctors performed 15 out of 25 surgeries in Azerbaijan, the rest in Ecuador and Kosovo.