Police arrest Israeli organ smuggling ‘mastermind’ in Cyprus after 10-year global manhunt
Moshe Harel is suspected of organising dozens of illegal kidney transplants at the Medicus clinic in Kosovo’s capital Pristina in 2008, and is the man being held, according to local media.
“The suspect whose initials are MH was arrested a few days ago in Cyprus following an international arrest warrant” from Pristina, Kosovan police spokesman Baki Kelani said Saturday.
Harel has been hunted by the authorities for almost a decade for exploiting victims, often recruited from poor areas in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, by promising 15,000 euros (US$18,000) for their organs.
Recipients, mainly Israelis, would pay up to 100,000 euros for the transplant.
The organ trafficking network came to light in 2008 after a Turkish man collapsed at Pristina airport after having a kidney removed.
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