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CBI identifies six aspects covering kidney racket

Staff Reporter

It will cover all relevant portions of the case

The agency has so far arrested five persons, including Dr. Amit Kumar
The CBI will also scan the records of the mobile phone numbers

NEW DELHI: To streamline investigations into the multi-crore kidney transplant racket that has both inter-State and international ramifications, the Central Bureau of Investigation has identified six major aspects covering all relevant portions of the case.

The investigations will focus on kidney donors, recipients, middlemen of both the parties, the alleged mastermind of the racket Amit Kumar, his brother Jeevan and their alleged accomplice Dr. Upender, and the wealth generated besides investments made by the accused in real estate in and outside the country. The agency is in the process of identifying the donors, recipients and also the potential clients of Dr. Kumar.

The CBI has urged them to voluntarily help in the investigations. In any case, the agency would in the coming days serve summons on the identified donors and recipients for questioning to gather more information about how the gang operated. During interrogation,

Dr. Kumar purportedly claimed that his foreign clients used to contact him through e-mail seeking help for kidney transplants. He allegedly told the CBI sleuths that he got publicity in and outside the country mainly through word of month.

The agency has so far arrested five persons, including Dr. Amit Kumar, and is yet to take custody of the others earlier arrested by the Haryana and the Uttar Pradesh police. “The suspended RML Hospital nurse Linda will be interrogated as and when required. We will also seek the custody of K.K. Aggarwal, who was arrested by the Moradabad police in Rajasthan,” said a CBI official.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Enforcement Directorate officials met the CBI officers to gather information about the financial transactions made by the prime accused and his accomplices in the past few years.

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