Doctor Horror captured in Nepal
An urban legend in the making.
I’ve been following this gory tale of
greed for days - waiting for the capture of the man called “Doctor
Horror”.
An Indian doctor suspected of being behind an
illegal kidney transplant racket was arrested in Nepal today and paraded before
journalists in the Himalayan country’s capital,
Kathmandu.
Amit Kumar is accused of running a private hospital, just outside Delhi, which allegedly lured or forced hundreds of poor people into giving up their kidneys and made millions by selling their organs…
Hotel staff said Kumar kept a low profile, wearing a hat and sunglasses, but he aroused suspicions by cutting out stories about the kidney scam from local newspapers…
Investigators said that, despite his public protestations of innocence, Kumar confessed to carrying out hundreds of kidney transplants in India, where a commercial trade in such organs is illegal.
Busted for currency violations in Nepal, the good doctor had a quarter-million dollars walking-around money with him.
I hope India has laws against profiting from crimes after the fact. There will be movies made about this medical urban legend.
Amit Kumar is accused of running a private hospital, just outside Delhi, which allegedly lured or forced hundreds of poor people into giving up their kidneys and made millions by selling their organs…
Hotel staff said Kumar kept a low profile, wearing a hat and sunglasses, but he aroused suspicions by cutting out stories about the kidney scam from local newspapers…
Investigators said that, despite his public protestations of innocence, Kumar confessed to carrying out hundreds of kidney transplants in India, where a commercial trade in such organs is illegal.
Busted for currency violations in Nepal, the good doctor had a quarter-million dollars walking-around money with him.
I hope India has laws against profiting from crimes after the fact. There will be movies made about this medical urban legend.
Posted: Fri - February 8, 2008 at 12:48 PM