Kidney-trade suspect arrest in Nepal: report

Kidney-trade suspect arrest in Nepal: report

Canadian Press

February 7, 2008 at 11:55 AM EST

KATHMANDU — A Nepalese newspaper is reporting the alleged mastermind of a massive kidney harvesting ring in India has been arrested in Nepal.

The Himalayan Times quotes police sources in Nepal in saying that 40-year-old Amit Kumar was arrested at a hotel in the southern town of Sauraha, about 60 kilometres from the Indian border town of Raxaul.

The Kathmandu-based newspaper says Mr. Kumar and an associate, identified as Manish Singh, checked into the hotel this morning under Mr. Singh's name.

Police showed up at the hotel shortly after and arrested Mr. Kumar, but Mr. Singh managed to escape, the newspaper reports.

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This TV grab taken from Nepal One Television channel in Kathmandu on Feb. 7 shows Dr Amit Kumar, the alleged mastermind of an illegal Kidney transplant racket. (AFP/Getty Images)
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Mr. Kumar, an Indian national with connections to Canada, became the subject of an international manhunt last week after Interpol issued a red notice for his arrest.

Mr. Kumar is alleged to be the mastermind behind an illegal organ-trade operation based in Gurgaon, an affluent suburb of New Delhi in which kidneys forcibly removed from as many as 500 people were used to provide transplants for foreigners.