Costa Rica begins a trial against five people accused of running an illegal organ trafficking network for foreigners, including Israelis.
Four Costa Rican doctors and wholesaler of Greek origin were engaged in capturing poor people who were willing to sell their kidneys for a total of between 6,000 and 20,000 dollars, mainly purchased by Israeli citizens and European customers, offering up to $ 100,000 per organ .
Surgery to remove the organs were carried out in some private clinics in Costa Rica each year attract thousands of foreigners for medical tourism cheap type.
Prosecutors and judicial police broke up the network in 2013 with the arrest of the five involved, after performing 14 kidney transplants.
An investigative report in the New York Times in 2014 revealed that Israeli citizens traveling to Costa Rica to pay local for their organs.
The defendants are exposed to penalties from 6 to 10 years in prison for the crime of human trafficking, but in the case of doctors could increase to between 8 and 16 years because criminal law punishes aggravating the exploitation of the profession or position to commit crimes.
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