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Another broker involved in kidney smuggling is caught

By Sahan Rathanasekara

January 31, 2023

The officials of the Colombo Crime Division, who are investigating the kidney smuggling centered around a private hospital in Borella, have arrested a broker involved in it.

The Colombo Crime Division says that Mr. Mohammad Zakir, a resident of Megoda Colonnawa, Wellampitiya, has been arrested.

The police said that this person was arrested yesterday evening.

According to that, the number of suspects arrested by the Colombo Crimes Division, which is investigating kidney trafficking, is 03. All three of them are brokers.

This kidney trafficking has happened by deceiving people from poor families.