Australia probes Philippine organ allegations
07/29/2011SYDNEY — Australian police said yesterday they had launched their first organ trafficking investigation after an elderly kidney patient reportedly brought a Filipina to Sydney for harvesting purposes.
Police said a house had been raided in March in relation to “suspected organ trafficking” and a probe was under way.
“This is the first organ trafficking case investigated by the Australian Federal Police,” a spokesman told AFP.
Officers usually tasked with people trafficking and sex slavery crimes were examining the case, she added, declining to detail the specific allegations..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110729nat6.html
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