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Ehime hospital in organ trade raid

Police raided a hospital in Ehime Prefecture on June 28 in connection with suspected organ trading in which a doctor, a gangster and three other people have been arrested. The move came after Noriko Horiuchi, the wife of the doctor, Toshinobu Horiuchi, 55, made a statement saying she had told surgeons at the hospital that her husband had paid money for a kidney and faked an adoption of a donor to qualify for the transplant that he underwent there last July, investigative sources said. (Kyodo News)

Shukan ST: July 8, 2011

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