Is Costa Rica at the Epicenter of a Global Black Market in Human Organs?

September 25, 2017

(The Costa Rica Star) – Costa Rican doctors who have been charged with selling kidneys on the global black market appear to have received payments of up to $140,000 per procedure – some of which went to the doctors, some for hospital expenses, and some to Costa Rican “donors.” It appears the network used by Costa Rican doctors to sell kidneys for transplants may be linked to the Ukraine in addition to Israel, said judicial investigator, Diego Castillo Gómez, this week during the trial, and may form part of a sophisticated global organ trafficking operation involving many countries and individuals.