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FIA busts illegal kidney transplant network in KP |
2019-03-08 |
[DAWN] The Federal Investigation Agency, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar![]() Zone, on Wednesday claimed to have dismantled an illegal kidney transplant network and tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! an accused. FIA officials said that FIA’s anti-corruption wing, Peshawar zone, busted the inter-provincial network of government hospital officials, senior doctors and illegal donors involved in illegal transplantation of human organs. They said that the anti-corruption wing was investigating the matter following a complaint by a retired executive engineer of Mardan, Fazle Qadir, who employed the services of Shoaib Afridi, a dialysis technician at Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, and paid him a hefty amount of Rs3.1 million to arrange for the donor, surgeon and other facilities. He said that Shoaib Afridi was arrested by the officials of Federal Investigation Agency, Peshawar. |
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