A woman was arrested in Venezuela for offering a human kidney for sale for the amount of 20,000 dollars through social networksreported the attorney general, Tarek William Saab, on Saturday night.
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“After publications in which they illegally offered a kidney for the amount of $20,000 through *Marketplace*… the location of one of the people who made this type of offer was determined and the content could be verified on his phone. the publication made,” the prosecutor said on Twitter.
The detainee, Marielys del Carmen Yedr, will be charged with ‘donation for profit’
Complaints circulated on social networks of the sale of organs through the Facebook platform, which has also been used for scams and other crimes related to kidnapping.as stated by the Police.
The prosecutor accompanied his tweet with photographs of the advertisement published by the woman on Marketplace in which “a 15-year-old girl’s kidney in perfect condition” was offered. It is not clear what would be the origin of the organ.
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According to William Saab, the detainee, Marielys del Carmen Yedr, will be charged with “donation for profit”. The prosecution is investigating whether there is a “criminal network” behind these types of publications.
In Venezuela there is no official record on organ trafficking, but every day thousands of people face the complicated task of obtaining medication to treat their chronic or kidney diseases and undergoing dialysis.due to the severe economic crisis that has affected the country for almost a decade.
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The organ transplant program ceased operations in 2017 and the Venezuelan government argued that it had been suspended due to economic sanctions against the country. However, several health NGOs assure that the transplant program began to show flaws since 2015.
AFP
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