Vietnamese-Cambodian Kidney-Trafficking Ring Busted

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Hunt to Find Organ Harvestors in Cambodia

Who is this Singaporean doctor who was harvesting kidneys in Cambodia,(ie: how many Singaporean surgeons working in Phnom Penh are capable of transplanting organs?) , and which Phnom Penh hospital was organizing or allowing these illegal operations ?
It seems unlikely that this sort of specialist surgery could go unnoticed in a hospital, on such a scale and over such a long period of time. If the Vietnamese police had not investigated and cracked down on this kidney buy and sell business, it would very likely be still in activity.
And who is the mastermind behind this international organ trafficking ?

Eight get jail terms for sending 37 Vietnamese to Cambodia to sell their kidneys
By Hai Duyen March 24, 2023 | 12:31 am PT
A court in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has handed prison terms to eight people involved in a kidney trading ring that sent 37 Vietnamese to Cambodia as organ donors.

Each of the eight defendants received 10-16 years behind bars for the charge of "trading human body parts." They all worked as brokers for the kidney trading ring, the largest ever that Vietnamese police have busted.

The ring leader, Ton Nu Thi Huyen, 46, died of kidney failure during the investigation.

According to the verdict, in 2009, Huyen went to China to get an illegal kidney transplant, where she met a man named Dao Thanh Nhan.

In 2016, she came to Cambodia to meet Nhan and he introduced her to a Singaporean doctor who was working at a hospital in Phnom Penh.

That doctor told Huyen to find people that want to sell their kidneys and bring them to Cambodia for the surgery.

Huyen then returned to Vietnam and connected with Viet, who she asked to search for people who had stated on social media that they wanted to sell kidneys. For every kidney transplanted, Huyen got VND70 million (US$2,973), of which she shared VND15-25 million with Viet.

Those that successfully came to Cambodia to sell their kidneys then returned to Vietnam and introduced more candidates to Huyen and Viet.

Taking advantage of a Facebook group named "Hoi hien than," (kidney donation group), Huyen and Viet put their candidates on the list of donors so that they would be sent to major hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City to take several tests needed for a kidney transplant.

Huyen then sent all the test results to the Singaporean doctor.

When the doctor found a match, Huyen took the kidney sellers to Cambodia for the surgery.

After selling their kidneys, each of the "donors" stayed at the hospital in Phnom Penh for 12 days and was paid VND200-210 million.

Between April 2017 and January 2019, Huyen’s ring had attracted 100 kidney sellers and sent 37 of them to Cambodia for transplant surgeries.

Of those who were sent to Cambodia, 20 successfully sold their kidneys, allowing Huyen to pocket VND1.4 billion.

Viet earned VND150 million after finding 40 kidney sellers for the ring, eight of whom successfully sold their kidneys. Each of the other seven defendants earned VND40-120 million as brokers.

The Vietnamese authorities have asked their counterparts in Cambodia to help track down the Singaporean doctor and Dao Thanh Nhan.

All eight defendants told the jury that they are aware of the crime they committed, but they justified what they did on the grounds that they were all in difficult financial situations and had to sell their kidneys to earn money. They said that only after that, did they introduce others to the ring.
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This article shows that the Vietnamese authorities intervened and broke up this human organ trafficking ring sometime prior to January 2021. In addition, the "gang leader" of the Vietnamese traffickers has since died of kidney failure. Was she the real "boss" ?

Back story from 07/01/2021.
https://www.24h.com.vn/an-ninh-hinh-su/ ... 15365.html
Ton Nu Thi Huyen - "boss" of the line of buying and selling human body parts
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"Boss" Ton Nu Thi Huyen and 7 accomplices surreptitiously brought many people abroad for illegal kidney transplants; earning a profit of more than 2.5 billion Vietnamese dong.

The People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City on January 7, 2021, is handling this case of buying and selling human body parts, where the criminals were operating a cross-border kidney brokerage and trading network between Vietnam and Cambodia.

According to the file, the People's Procuracy of Ho Chi Minh City prosecuted the crime of "Buying and selling human organs" against 8 subjects, including: Ton Nu Thi Huyen (SN 1975), Dao Duc Hai Viet (SN 1994), Hoang Duc Tung (SN 1991), Pham Quang Canh (SN 1996), Huynh Linh Tam (SN 1992), Nguyen Minh Tam (SN 1999), Dao Quang Hung (SN 1992), Huynh Kim Ngan (SN 1995).

Huyen is the head of the kidney trading operation in Vietnam, while the other defendents are charged with acting as her accomplices, with each person assigned a specific role in the gang, such as searching for kidney sellers on the internet, taking the kidney sellers to the hospital in Vietnam for tests, taking the approved sellers to Cambodia to be operated and then back to Vietnam, dealing with the financial aspects of the business

In 2009, Huyen had a kidney transplant in China, where she met Doan Thanh Nhan (Vietnamese man living in Cambodia). In 2016, Huyen went to Cambodia to meet Doan Thanh Nhan to discuss the sale of kidneys with a doctor named Tran (Singaporean nationality, working at the Military Hospital in Phnom Penh). "Doctor Tran" told Huyen to return to Vietnam to find someone who wanted to sell a kidney, and then sent them to Cambodia for a kidney transplant for someone in need. "Doctor Tran" was offering between US$15,000 to 17,000 per kidney.

Huyen returned to Vietnam and began recruiting other subjects into the cross-border kidney trading network. From 2017 to 2019, Ton Nu Thi Huyen and her accomplices found more than 100 kidney sellers and took them to many hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi for testing.

After that, the "boss" directly organized and directed her subordinates to send 37 people to Cambodia for kidney transplants. As a result, the criminal gang earned more than 2.5 billion VND.
Out of 37 kidney sellers, the investigators identified 22 people's identities; they estimate that after selling their kidney, the health of these people declined by 45-69%.

Regarding the transnational kidney trafficking ring, the [Vietnamese] investigating agency verified that a number of subjects were operating in Cambodia. Up to now, the Ministry of Justice of the Kingdom of Cambodia has not responded to the verification requests from Vietnam, so the authorities have no grounds to proceed.
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Holy moly, missus predicted this would happen once the Chinese took over her former hospital and started doing transplants.


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newkidontheblock wrote: Sat Mar 25, 2023 4:24 am Holy moly, missus predicted this would happen once the Chinese took over her former hospital and started doing transplants.


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I have a faint memory of hearing about this type of activity long ago. Lucan will remember. He’s our historian (Travelers reference - good tv show)
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Sat Mar 25, 2023 1:06 am Hunt to Find Organ Harvestors in Cambodia

Who is this Singaporean doctor who was harvesting kidneys in Cambodia,(ie: how many Singaporean surgeons working in Phnom Penh are capable of transplanting organs?) , and which Phnom Penh hospital was organizing or allowing these illegal operations ?
It seems unlikely that this sort of specialist surgery could go unnoticed in a hospital, on such a scale and over such a long period of time. If the Vietnamese police had not investigated and cracked down on this kidney buy and sell business, it would very likely be still in activity.
And who is the mastermind behind this international organ trafficking ?

Eight get jail terms for sending 37 Vietnamese to Cambodia to sell their kidneys
By Hai Duyen March 24, 2023 | 12:31 am PT
A court in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has handed prison terms to eight people involved in a kidney trading ring that sent 37 Vietnamese to Cambodia as organ donors.

Each of the eight defendants received 10-16 years behind bars for the charge of "trading human body parts." They all worked as brokers for the kidney trading ring, the largest ever that Vietnamese police have busted.

The ring leader, Ton Nu Thi Huyen, 46, died of kidney failure during the investigation.

According to the verdict, in 2009, Huyen went to China to get an illegal kidney transplant, where she met a man named Dao Thanh Nhan.

In 2016, she came to Cambodia to meet Nhan and he introduced her to a Singaporean doctor who was working at a hospital in Phnom Penh.

That doctor told Huyen to find people that want to sell their kidneys and bring them to Cambodia for the surgery.

Huyen then returned to Vietnam and connected with Viet, who she asked to search for people who had stated on social media that they wanted to sell kidneys. For every kidney transplanted, Huyen got VND70 million (US$2,973), of which she shared VND15-25 million with Viet.

Those that successfully came to Cambodia to sell their kidneys then returned to Vietnam and introduced more candidates to Huyen and Viet.

Taking advantage of a Facebook group named "Hoi hien than," (kidney donation group), Huyen and Viet put their candidates on the list of donors so that they would be sent to major hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City to take several tests needed for a kidney transplant.

Huyen then sent all the test results to the Singaporean doctor.

When the doctor found a match, Huyen took the kidney sellers to Cambodia for the surgery.

After selling their kidneys, each of the "donors" stayed at the hospital in Phnom Penh for 12 days and was paid VND200-210 million.

Between April 2017 and January 2019, Huyen’s ring had attracted 100 kidney sellers and sent 37 of them to Cambodia for transplant surgeries.

Of those who were sent to Cambodia, 20 successfully sold their kidneys, allowing Huyen to pocket VND1.4 billion.

Viet earned VND150 million after finding 40 kidney sellers for the ring, eight of whom successfully sold their kidneys. Each of the other seven defendants earned VND40-120 million as brokers.

The Vietnamese authorities have asked their counterparts in Cambodia to help track down the Singaporean doctor and Dao Thanh Nhan.

All eight defendants told the jury that they are aware of the crime they committed, but they justified what they did on the grounds that they were all in difficult financial situations and had to sell their kidneys to earn money. They said that only after that, did they introduce others to the ring.
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/eight ... 85196.html
Hospitals here have no issues with hooking patients up with an Indian hospital where they can travel to to get a kidney transplant for around 50k all inclusive.

Reading this article all eight defendants donated a kidney themselves and went on to refer the whole procedure to others. So , is donating their own kidney for cash a crime in itself or is it the act or referring others to do the same that is the crime here?
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Alleged Indonesian organ trafficker says he sold his kidney to a Singapore buyer
Hanim said he contacted the administrator of a Facebook group via Messenger in 2018, expressing his intention to sell his kidney.
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JAKARTA – Faced with mounting debts, 41-year-old Hanim had sold his kidney to an organ-trafficking ring in 2019. He then joined the syndicate as a coordinator and helped cash-strapped Indonesians do the same.

Prospective peddlers typically contacted the syndicate on private Facebook kidney donor groups and provided their personal details such as age, gender and blood type.

They would then gather at a rented house in Bekasi, outside Jakarta, and fly to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh from Indonesia’s capital or Bali for a medical check-up at a military hospital there.

Once they passed the health test, they would be matched with buyers, who hailed from various countries, including Singapore, Malaysia and China, according to Hanim and the Indonesian police.

Recipients paid 200 million rupiah (S$17,700) for a kidney.

“My kidney was sold to a patient from Singapore,” Hanim told local television media from the Jakarta police headquarters in a video posted on YouTube on Sunday.

“The sellers would meet the buyers, sign a donor agreement and set a date for the operation. Nobody was allowed to visit them. Sellers would be paid after the transplant was completed and stay at the hospital for around 10 days to recover,” he added.

Earlier in July, and 122 donors later, the Indonesian police busted the syndicate. Twelve people were detained and named suspects, including nine who, like Hanim, had exchanged their kidneys for cash.

The ring involved a policeman and an immigration officer too.

The immigration officer, whom the police identified by his initials A.H, was paid 3 million to 3.5 million rupiah for every donor he helped to clear immigration at the Bali airport.

But even this officer had no clue the donors were involved in organ trafficking, as they had lied to him that they were going to work for online gambling operators in Cambodia.

All the suspects face up to 15 years in jail and a fine of up to 600 million rupiah for violating Indonesia’s human-trafficking law.

According to Indonesian police, sellers received 165 million rupiah and the traffickers pocketed 35 million rupiah to cover such expenses as air tickets and passport-processing fees.

Police chief commissioner Hengki Haryadi, Jakarta’s police director of the general crimes investigation unit, told reporters that the sellers included a teacher, a security guard and even a master’s student.

Most of them desperately needed money, making them vulnerable targets of the syndicate,he added.

Mr Hengki also said initial investigations showed that illegal organ trading “may have been going on for a long time and (the ring that was busted is) not the only syndicate”.
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nothing happens in this country without them knowing about it and having a finger in the pie.
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