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OSCE research paper covers illegal organ transplant surgeries conducted at medical center of Elshad Abdullayevâ€™s university

10 July 2013 10:23 (UTC +04:00)

APA reports that the paper is based on reports of cases in the OSCE region where formal criminal investigations have taken place, or which have been fully prosecuted.

The research paper covered the illegal organ transplant surgeries conducted in Moldova, Turkey, Bulgaria, Israel, Ukraine and Kosovo. Illegal organ transplant surgeries conducted at the Azerbaijan International University Medical Center (AIUMC) during 2009 by Ukrainian surgeons, involving 13 Ukrainian victim-donors and foreign recipients from three countries were also reflected in the document.

The document says that AIUMC employees from Israel, Ukraine and Azerbaijan were charged with causing grave consequences as a result of an abuse of power (Article 308.2 of the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan); establishment of a criminal organization (Article 255.1), trafficking of organs or cells or their forceful taking with aim of transplanting (Article 143.3) and human trafficking (Article 149.3).

The efforts of Ukrainian authorities to engage actively with authorities in Azerbaijan have been identified as the reason the latter not only provided international legal assistance for the Ukrainian Case, but also undertook their own investigations into the transplants carried out by Ukrainian surgeons at the Azerbaijan International University Medical Center Cases in the paper.