Your kidney is worth $150K on the black market
The North American financial system may be repairing, yet such is not the case in many regions, where recession doesn’t indicate fiscal performance of the day, rather enduring economic despair.
Indeed, poor countries are poor countries, but while residents will do anything to free their families from poverty, of course, desperate and dangerous behaviours have reached this side of the Atlantic, according to a new report.
By an investigation from Bloomberg Markets Magazine, the global black market for illegal human organs is thriving, and many are rushing in to sell parts of their body for some quick cash.
Kidneys, the report says, can be sold for upwards of $150,000 on the black market.
From Bloomberg, the poor of many nations in Eastern Europe and the Middle East are signing up to sell their kidneys to illegal traffickers, though are often getting more risk than they’ve bargained for.
*Bing: What are the health risks of living with one kidney?
Leaving the obvious risks of back-room surgery aside for the moment, those desperate enough to answer black market ads to sell their organs for the promise of cash are being threatened, extorted and, in some of the worst cases, left to die following their operations.
In some countries, advertisements seeking human organs promise to pay about $10,000 for a kidney, which can then be resold by traffickers for as much as $150,000 on the black market. One man who had his kidney removed in Istanbul was paid only $7,000 – $2,500 of that turned out to be in counterfeit bills – and was told his family would be killed if he went to police.
Today, Bloomberg reports, the man goes to bed some days “writhing from pain in his remaining kidney.”
Perhaps surprisingly, while buying or selling an organ is illegal in every country in the world except Iran, the grisly practice isn’t just happening in motel rooms in Eastern Bloc nations.
A Brooklyn man plead guilty late last month to trafficking a kidney to an FBI informant in New Jersey, marking the first time in U.S. history anyone has been convicted for brokering illegal kidney transplants for profit.
By Jason Buckland, MSN Money
Posted by: John | Nov 16, 2021 3:13:12 PM
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Posted by: miranda | Nov 16, 2021 9:07:25 PM
your kidneys should stay in your body!!! ive heard of the under world and many illegal activities but this is far beyond then anything for a person to go that far for a bit of cash is unreal and my own personal oponion is when people are bleeding for money tearing there bodies apart for a short time when the moneys all gone your stuck with pain deadly illness n you sold yourself short money shouldnt exist if it all comes down to selling your body parts its not going to be long before the world as we know it comes to an end ...its blood money ppl its wrong !!!!
Posted by: Phil g | Nov 18, 2021 3:55:01 AM
So what could a fella get for toenail clippings? Or hair! How about I rent out my lips....I'd need them back though.
Posted by: Jack | Nov 18, 2021 8:03:38 PM
@ Phil g... Regarding your lips..... it depends where they have been ;-)
Posted by: Greg | Nov 21, 2021 11:47:15 AM
Um..#1 this is a person, an adult, if they wish to sell THEIR kidney thats up to them not the government. #2 when it comes to normal organ donation these same medical experts say that a human can live with one kidney, so you tell me, just because its free its safe to live with one, but if its sold on the market its deadly. putting aside where its done. I wish govenrment would mind its own business when it comes down to a person and their rights..
#3, 150,000.00 is alot of money that should not be given to the traffickers period. they are the ones that need to be jailed or better yest have one of their kidneys taken for free, then maybe they will learn. GREED!!!!!that five letter word that is all over the world, this is whats casung starvation, high oil prices, high hsouing costs it goes all the way through everything. Its time we punished the greedy people on this planet period and prevent them from practising business ever!!