Police in Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi busted a human kidney trade ring, keeping two people in custody, the municipal police announced on Tuesday.

The police apprehended N.V.C., 43, residing in northern Phu Tho Province, and N.T.P., 35, a resident of Hai Phong City, also in northern Vietnam, over allegations of trading human body parts or tissues.

The preliminary investigation results revealed that the two got acquainted during a visit to the Viet Duc University Hospital in Hanoi in 2021 and kept in touch with each other since then.

Early this year, they reached a consensus on brokering human kidney deals to make money as they found on Facebook that many people had a demand for buying and selling kidneys. 

They later learned that H., 33, living in Phu Tho, wanted to sell his kidney, so they contacted him.

P. instructed H. to visit the Viet Duc University Hospital for a medical check-up and then set a price of VND420 million (US$17,666) for the kidney.

C. and P. covered H.’s medical check-up and living expenses until H. underwent a surgery for the kidney removal on January 9 this year.

They found a person who agreed to buy the kidney at VND1 billion ($42,063). 

After deducting costs, C. transferred VND420 million ($17,666) to H. and VND275 million ($11,537) to P. and kept the remaining amount.

The police in Hoan Kiem District are completing procedures to handle the suspects in line with the law.

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