SNN: Sueddeutsche Zeitung: “Kidneys as special offer”

May 02, 2013

Sueddeutsche Zeitung: “Kidneys as special offer”

Sueddeutsche Zeitung: "Kidneys as special offer"

"Süddeutsche Zeitung" wrote about the verdict to the "Medicus" clinic owner, his son and associates responsible for the illegal organ trade, noting that the political background of the case remained unsolved, reports RTS.

"Kidneys as special offer" is the title of the article in this magazine, which states that clinic "Medicus" has been in the centre of the attention of the law enforcements since 2008.

"Jilman Altun, 23-year-old Turk, was caught at the airport in Pristina. Several hours before that he was visiting the clinic. His kidney was intended for 74-year-old Israeli man. Huge number of poor people from countries like Russia, Moldavia and Kazakhstan were brought to Pristina, where their kidney was removed for the appropriate sum of money. Usually the promise was EUR 15,000, but at the end they would get significantly less, reports Deutsche Welle.

German political weekly magazine Der Spiegel has, in the midst of the organ transplant scandal in Germany, written about the "Medicus" clinic in which rich German manufacturer Walter and poor Russian emigrant Vera, were operated. Vera sold her left kidney for EUR 8,100, and the German paid for the same kidney EUR 81,892, wrote Der Spiegel in August 2012.

Journalists of the magazine have investigated the illegal human organ trade for long time, and they have discovered information about the involvement of the Kosovo government, but also about how much were Germans involved in the business of huge profit and rapidly growing business of the criminal gangs.

In the analytical report and in the best style of the journalism world, magazine Der Spiegel wrote about donors and recipients of the organs, about the harsh reality of the poverty and possibilities of the wealth, about the "cover" of the Kosovo government, about German doctor Manfred Ernst Beer, who "hosted" the Dervisi family at the time of the Kosovo conflict , and they have then, by the explanation of the "Medicus" lawyer, proposed him to open clinic in Kosovo.

Vera was not the only one in the "Medicus" clinic. In november 2008. on the customs of the airport in Pristina Jilman Altun got ill.

The patient has been taken to the airport doctor, who found that the man had just a kidney removed, and according to the Turk's words, it was in "Medicus" clinic, wrote The Spiegel, adding that at the time the police raided the villa and found Israeli man there as the organ recipient.

Looking at the sad fate of those who ended up in the "Medicus" clinic, the question "What happened to Vera?" raises.

She has, according to The Spiegel, with the money she got from selling her kidney, managed to take her daughter from Russia to Tel Aviv. The daughter knows about the mother's sacrifice and wants to become a doctor, so she could help her mother.