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Investigation into case of doctors, who carried out illegal transplant of human organs in Azerbaijan, completed

16 June 2011 09:40 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Habil Suleymanzadeh â€“ APA. The investigation into the â€œblack transplantâ€ case of the doctors of Kiev-based Shalimov Institute has been completed. APA reports quoting Ukrainian media that the defendants and their lawyers are being familiarized with the materials of the criminal case.

Six, including three doctors have faced charges on three articles of the Criminal Code. They can be sentenced up to 15 years of imprisonment. The court hearing is expected to start next month.

25 were recognized as sufferers over the case of â€œblack transplantâ€. The doctors faced 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.

Basing on the appeal of the Ukrainian law-enforcement bodies concerning illegal transplants, Azerbaijani Prosecutor Generalâ€™s Office and Interior Ministry carried out a joint investigation. It was found out that in 2009 a group of citizens of Ukraine arranged illegal kidney transplants by Ukrainian doctors for the citizens of various countries in the medical center of Azerbaijan International University. Prosecutor Generalâ€™s Office and Interior Ministry carried out operations together with Ukrainian law-enforcement bodies. It was found out that officials of the medical center under Azerbaijan International University abused their power violated the requirements of the Law of Azerbaijan Republic on â€œTransplant of human organs and (or) tissuesâ€. Without having special agreement (license) for transplants of human organs and tissues, they created conditions for ten surgeries, kidneys of the donors from Ukraine were transplanted to the foreign recipients. They got a large sum of money for each surgery without doing necessary paperwork.

Prosecutor Generalâ€™s Office of the Republic launched criminal case on responsible persons of the medical center under Azerbaijan International University under article 308.2 (abuse of power resulted in serious consequences) of the Criminal Code.
Investigative group consisting of officers of the Republican Prosecutor Office and Interior Ministry was created, investigation department on grave crimes at the General Prosecutorâ€™s Office was tasked for conducting preliminary investigation.