Trial Set for Doctors, Pizza Shop Owner Accused of Running Kidney Trafficking Ring

February 15, 2016

(Fox News) – Five people are set to go on trial in Costa Rica for their alleged roles in a major organ trafficking ring that sold kidneys harvested in the Central American nation to buyers in Israel. Costa Rica’s Prosecutor’s Office on Organized Crime has charged four officials from Calderón Guardia Hospital in the capital of San José along with the owner of a pizzeria across the street from the medical center with human trafficking for the purpose of organ extraction. They allegedly sold at least 14 kidneys to foreign buyers, mostly Israelis, from 2009 to 2013, according to the Tico Times.