Illegal organ transplant scam: Account of prime suspect’s wife frozen

For the past month, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is after the illegal organ transplant mafia, trying to root out all the members of this business. In recent news, the FIA has frozen the bank accounts of a lady doctor for her alleged involvement in the illegal organ trade.

“We have included Dr Lubna, wife of prime suspect Dr Fawad Mumtaz, in the investigation and frozen the couple’s bank accounts,” FIA Deputy Director Jamil Ahmed Khan Mayo told Dawn.

The Deputy Director said that Dr. Lubna might also have a part to play in the scam, but investigations are underway to determine that.

In the recent past, the trade of illegal organ transplant has flourished in Pakistan. People from the developed countries contact their suppliers in Pakistan to provide them with healthy organs, which are otherwise very hard to get in those countries.

In several raids conducted on these illegal rackets, the FIA has caught red-handed Dr Fawaz Mumtaz, Dr Altamash Kharal, paramedical staffers Umer Draz and Muhammad Shahzad during a raid at EME Society near Thokar Niaz Beg while they were performing a kidney transplant on two donors and as many Omani national recipients.

Upon investigation it was revealed that the racket has been operative in other parts of the country as well and based on the information provided by the culprits, other suspects were also arrested.

Subsequently, the FIA also arrested Dr Zafar Javed, anaesthesist at Mayo Hospital, two agents, three accomplices of the arrested doctors.

All the suspects are in jail on judicial remand.

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