Brazilian doctors convicted for removing, selling contraband organs to the United States

Source: Agence France-Presse

Brazilian doctors convicted for removing, selling contraband organs to the United States
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, February 7, 2014 19:47 EST

Two doctors have been sent to prison in Brazil for selling contraband organs to the United States as part of a suspected trafficking scheme, law enforcement officials said Friday.

The two men, Celso Roberto Scafi and Claudio Rogerio Carneiro Fernandes, are both urologists who practiced medicine in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.

But officials allege they also were part of an organ-trafficking “mafia” in which kidneys, livers and other organs and body tissues were illegally removed from patients, some of whom were still alive, and sold.

The men were convicted at a trial in February 2013 but appealed to a higher court, which on Thursday upheld the lower court’s verdict.


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