Police to present alleged kidney ring mastermind at press conference11 minutes ago
KATHMANDU, India (CNN) -- The alleged mastermind of a kidney transplant scheme in India will be presented by authorities at a news conference in the capital of Nepal on Friday, police said.
Up to 500 people are believed to have had kidneys removed, with some of them forced to do so.
"We are investigating the case and will charge him according to the laws of Nepal," Upendra Kanta Aryal, the police official in-charge of the investigation, told CNN. "Only after that the legal process for extradition to India will begin."
The suspect, Dr. Amit Kumar, was carrying $145,000 in U.S. dollars and a check for another 900,000 euros ($1.3 million) when he was taken into custody Thursday evening in the Nepalese town of Saurah, about 95 miles (150 km) south of Kathmandu.
He was arrested by a special team of Kathmandu police and taken to a regional police station in Hetauda, Minister of State Ram Kumar Chaudhary said.
Amit Kumar is accused of coercing, stealing or buying a kidney from healthy Indians and then selling them to foreigners for transplant.
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Several doctors have been accused of taking part in the scheme, Chaudhary said.
Police in India have said that as many as 500 people may have given up a kidney up to the ring. Some told CNN they were forced to do so and not compensated.
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