Kidney transplantation in abandoned workshops: Renren buys 550,000, Renren sells only 45,000
According to the indictment of the Xinhe County Procuratorate, from August to November 2018, the gang carried out 9 illegal kidney transplant operations in Xinhe County, 8 of which were suspected of organizing the human organs. Li Rui and Shu Kang are one of the kidney donors and recipients who have undergone successful surgery. According to the defendant Guolin, the cost of buying kidneys for each recipient ranges from 500,000 yuan to 600,000 yuan, but the donor who sells the kidney can only get about 45,000 yuan.
On the night after leaving the nursing home, Li Rui was returned to his cell phone and put on his blindfold again. A private car took him to Xingtai Bus Station. After a night in the hotel, he took a bus from Xingtai to Jinan, and then transferred to a sleeper bus to return to Yibin. The bus drove for more than 20 hours, bumping all the way, Li Rui’s unhealed wounds were bleeding, and the mattress under him was wet.
Under the darkness, 21-year-old Li Rui and 22-year-old Shu Kang were put on black goggles, took away their phones, boarded a gray van, and were not allowed to talk on the way. About an hour later, the van was parked in an empty yard, and the dim lights of the two small bungalows not far away.
Li Rui, who removed his blindfold, was taken into a bungalow, which was a small operating bed. A person wearing a surgical gown asked him if he was sure to perform a kidney removal operation? Li Rui said two words: OK.
Shu Kang was taken into another bungalow and waited quietly. If all goes well, he will get a new kidney to replace the organ that has begun to fail in the body.
On November 29, 2018, the Public Security Bureau of Xinhe County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province dropped an illegal operation den, and an underground kidney sales group with a clear division of labor surfaced. Some of the gangs are responsible for finding kidney donors and recipients on the Internet, some are responsible for contacting doctors, anesthesiologists, and instrument nurses, some are responsible for the post-operative rehabilitation of donors and recipients, and some are dedicated to central liaison coordination.
According to the indictment of the Xinhe County Procuratorate, from August to November 2018, the gang carried out 9 illegal kidney transplant operations in Xinhe County, 8 of which were suspected of organizing the sale of human organs. Li Rui and Shu Kang are one of the kidney donors and recipients who have undergone successful surgery. According to the defendant Guolin, the cost of buying kidneys for each recipient ranges from 500,000 yuan to 600,000 yuan, but the donor who sells the kidney can only get about 45,000 yuan.
On November 26, 2019, the Xinhe County Court heard the case in public. On April 29, 2020, an insider of the Hebei court system revealed that the Xinhe County Court made a first-instance judgment, and the 14 defendants all constituted the crime of organizing the sale of human organs. From nine to seven years, the remaining nine defendants were sentenced to probation.
Donors remotely controlled by QQ and telephone
The 23-year-old Li Rui was born in Gong County, Yibin City, Sichuan Province. He has a white and quiet face, wears a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and speaks softly. If it weren’t for the 20 cm mark on the left abdomen, probably no one believed that the handsome boy had sold his kidney.
Recalling his choice more than a year ago, he did not regret it. “At that time, I had no money at all, and I had to pay my cousin debt.”
In Li Rui’s narrative, he followed his parents at the age of 5 to work in Haiyan County, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province. His father worked as a bricklayer, leaving early and returning late, and his salary was paid daily; his mother worked in an embroidery factory and received several thousand yuan a month. Li Rui did not study well and loves to play online games. He often skips school. After graduating from junior high school in 2014, he worked in garment factories, bars and KTV.
In September 2018, Li Rui returned to his hometown in Yibin from Haiyan to receive customers in a used car shop, 4,000 yuan per month. Under his guarantee, his cousin also came to work in the dealership. But it didn’t take long for his cousin to sell the collected second-hand car privately for 50,000 yuan, and even the money was gone. As a guarantor, Li Rui had to pay for it.
In November 2018, Li Rui joined a QQ group recommended by a friend to find a job, and asked in the group: What kind of work makes money fast? Some of the friends in the group said, “Sell the kidneys, this one will come quickly.” Some people say that a kidney can sell 100,000, and some people can sell 200,000. Li Rui ignored it.
Two or three days later, Li Rui asked how to make quick money in the group. This time, someone actively added his QQ friend, saying that there is a project to buy kidneys-45,000 yuan per kidney, in addition, there are red envelopes paid separately by buyers.
Until now, Li Rui still does not know who the kidney recipient contacted with himself on QQ, and never asked his name. But after the Xinhe County Public Security Bureau removed the kidney buying and selling gang, Shun Tenggua found 29-year-old Xiao Ping (Hubei Police has filed a case against him), and he was doing the sale of donor intermediaries.
The testimony provided by Xiao Ping to the police showed that when he was working in Jinan in 2015, he urgently needed money, moved the idea of selling kidneys, and joined a QQ group selling kidneys. Since February 2018, he began to look for kidney donors and obtain agency fees.
In general, Xiao Ping finds donors in two ways: one is to spread the net on the Internet and find donors of different blood types for later use; the other is that the gang goes online to provide recipient blood types and then Xiao Ping searches for them purposefully. In terms of costs, the intermediary fee for each unexamined donor is several thousand yuan; the intermediary fee is 15,000 yuan for the donor who completes the medical examination and is qualified.
Xiao Ping told the police that in October and November 2018 alone, he had delivered four donors to the underground kidney trading gang in Xinhe County. One of the donors failed the medical examination and did not undergo surgery; two donors passed the medical examination, Xiao Ping profited 21,000 yuan.
In November 2018, Li Rui was a little bit tempted after seeing the kidney recipient’s reply on QQ, but he was suspicious of the quotation, “Why is it so cheap?” Deceptive.
For this price, Li Rui is difficult to accept. One day later, the kidney recipient sent the message again, “Is your kidney still sold?” Li Rui thought about it and returned a word: sell.
Next, the kidney recipients who had never met began to issue instructions through telephone, QQ and other channels to remotely control Li Rui’s every move.
According to Li Rui’s recollection, on November 16, 2018, he received the first instruction: go to Wuhan, Hubei. He borrowed 200 yuan from a friend and bought a bus ticket from Gongxian to Wuhan. He wore a thin coat and carried a black backpack.
According to the arrangement of the kidney recipient, Li Rui lived in a small hotel in Wuhan with a young man in the room. The young people claim to be from Jiangxi and also came to sell kidneys, but because they have not found a suitable buyer for the time being, they have lived here for two or three months.
After staying with the Jiangxi guy for less than half an hour, Li Rui was asked by the hotel owner to move to another room. “We were also asked not to chat with us.” After 4 hours, Li Rui received a call from the kidney recipient again and asked him ID number to order train tickets.
At about 4 pm that day, Li Rui left Wuhan by train according to the instructions of the kidney recipient. As for where he went, he said he could not remember. He only remembers that it was midnight when he walked out of the train station at his destination. The kidney recipient asked him to look for a bus across the square of the train station, and used Alipay to transfer 350 yuan for the ticket.
In Li Rui’s impression, it was the last time that the kidney recipient of QQ contacted himself. Li Rui remembered that he was a man with a very soft voice, “I feel young.”
Matching type for donor and recipient
The kidney recipient who contacted Li Rui was called Guolin in the gang. He was 42 years old and had junior high school education. He was sentenced to probation for the misappropriation of funds. The indictment shows that Guolin is the first defendant in this case. In addition to overall coordination and benefit distribution, Guolin will also contact donors and recipients.
Ge Xiong, in his 20s, is a kidney receptor and suffered from kidney failure before surgery. Ge Xiong’s testimony shows that around April 2018, a strange call asked if he was willing to buy a kidney for a kidney replacement. The operation cost was 550,000 yuan, and the preoperative inspection and postoperative recuperation costs were self-care. After several months of consideration, in early August of that year, Ge Xiong decided to change his kidney and went to Jinan Hospital for medical examination under the guidance of a kidney intermediary.
The indictment shows that Jinan, Shandong is one of the gang’s footholds. According to an accused, his main duty in the gang is to take donors and recipients to check before Jinan surgery and to adjust the body.
On the evening of November 16, 2018, the destination of Li Rui’s sleeper bus was Jinan. In the middle of the night, a strange man dialed his phone and asked him to contact him when he arrived in Jinan.
At 8 o’clock the next morning, Li Rui, who arrived in Jinan, was asked to wait at the gate of the station. After 20 minutes, two young men appeared in front of him, one tall and one short. The chunky man was the one who talked to him at night.
The two verified Li Rui’s identity and took him on foot to a hospital near the station for a medical check-up, blood test, urine test, and filming of his abdomen. Li Rui didn’t know what the hospital was called, just remember to walk out of the gate of Jinan Bus Station, turn right, and walk straight along the road for more than ten minutes.
After the physical examination, the two bought a warm coat for Li Rui and placed him in a small hotel nearby. Li Rui lived there for 4 days. The chunky man paid his room fee every day, and gave him 100 yuan for living expenses. “He also asked me not to run around, to play less mobile phones at night, do not stay up late.” Li Rui said.
On the fourth day of his stay, a man in a white coat and mask came to the hotel and took blood for Li Rui for the second time. A young man wearing a mask was also accompanied by a blood test. This person was Shu Kang.
In Li Rui’s impression, Shu Kang had long hair and was about 1.75 meters tall. At the meeting, the two did not say a word, Li Rui did not know that Shu Kang was his kidney buyer.
“Generally speaking, before kidney transplantation, donors and recipients must be matched with red blood cells and white blood cells. If the donor is type O blood, which is commonly known as the universal blood type, then the recipient can be compatible with any blood type. Otherwise, the blood types of both parties will be the same. “A kidney transplant expert from a top three hospital in a northern province told the Beijing News reporter. In addition, the donor must also check whether his kidneys are intact, whether there are kidney stones, tumors, and potentials through CT and urine tests. Recessive kidney disease, etc.
“These tests are matched and qualified, and a lymphotoxicity test is performed before the operation. That is, 100 live lymphocytes are extracted from the donor blood and placed in the recipient’s serum to incubate for a few hours to simulate after kidney transplantation. The status of the two. “The above experts said that if the number of cell deaths does not exceed 10, it basically has the conditions for kidney transplantation. “Li Rui’s second blood draw is probably a lymphadenosis test.”
On November 21, 2018, the day after the blood draw, at 6 o’clock in the morning, Li Rui, who was asleep, was awakened by the rapid knock on the door. The tall and short man had booked a bus ticket for him from Jinan, Shandong, to Nangong, Xingtai, Hebei, and Li Rui went on his own road again.
At noon that day, Li Rui once again saw the tall and short men at the exit of Qinggong Expressway Nangong. The three of them took a taxi to Sifang Hotel Nangong. In the Sifang Hotel, Li Rui met Shu Kang. This time, he realized that the boy of his age was his kidney receptor.
Doctor from Shandong, nurse from Hebei
At 6 p.m. on November 21, 2018, Li Rui and Shu Kang boarded a gray van, handed over their mobile phones, put on blindfolds, and set off from the Sifang Hotel in Nangong City. About an hour later, the car drove into an empty courtyard.
The indictment shows that this small courtyard was leased in June 2018 after Guolin and other defendants negotiated, and was located in Xinhe County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province.
On January 23, 2020, a reporter from the Beijing News saw at the scene of the small courtyard that the green fence was hanging in front of the iron fence door as a shelter, and the nearby weeds were overgrown. In the small courtyard, five bungalows were lined up one after another from west to east, and the rear windows were completely bricked. Three of the bungalows were opened internally, two as operating rooms and one as a dressing room for medical staff.
A nearby villager told the Beijing News reporter that this is a factory building that was abandoned for seven or eight years, and few people usually come in and out.
On November 21, 2018, Li Rui and Shu Kang were taken into a bungalow after entering the small hospital. The person in the room asked Li Rui: Are you sure you want to have a kidney removal operation? After confirmation, Li Rui was taken to the next room. There was a sliding door in the room, behind which was the operating room.
In Li Rui’s impression, this operating room is very rudimentary, with only one operating table, two machines with no name, and nothing else. There were three or four people wearing masks in the operating room, but couldn’t see their faces. One of them was wearing a white coat and surgical cap, and the others were wearing dark green surgical gowns. From their conversation, Li Rui found that all but one person wearing a dark green surgical gown were male.
The indictment showed that the chief surgeon who performed the kidney removal operation for Li Rui was the defendant Ji Hongyu, and the surgical assistants were Li Kun and Zhang Lunlun. All three were from Shandong.
On January 22, 2020, a village cadre in Jizhuang Village, Dezhou City, Shandong Province, where Ji Hongyu was registered, told the Beijing News reporter that it has been seven or eight years since the Ji family moved from the village, and few people know their current situation. But he knew that Ji Hongyu had worked in the Qianfoshan Hospital of Shandong Province (also known as the “First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University”, hereinafter referred to as “Qianfoshan Hospital”) in Jinan. Ji Hongyu’s uncle also told the Beijing News reporter that his nephew had worked as a doctor in the urology department of Qianfoshan Hospital, and his kidney replacement business was very good.
A person close to the medical administrative examination and approval system told the Beijing News reporter that after enquiries, Ji Hongyu’s registered practice was Jinxia Lixia Hongqiao Clinic, a professional practicing physician in internal medicine; Li Kun and Zhang Lunlun did not have a practicing physician certificate.
On May 6, 2020, a reporter from the Beijing News called the Medical Office of Qianfoshan Hospital. A staff member said that Ji Hongyu had left the hospital in 2018.
On the same day, a reporter from the Beijing News called the Lixia Hongqiao Clinic. The person answering the phone said that he had never heard of someone called Ji Hongyu in the clinic, and said that he would ask the person in charge of the clinic and call back. As of press time, Lixia Hongqiao Clinic did not return a call.
According to Guo Lin’s statement, Ji Hongyu, Li Kun, and Zhang Lunlun were introduced by their online intermediary Li Mou (currently at large). Every time Guolin gets the donor, recipient physical examination, and matching data, he will be evaluated by Li Mou, who will contact Ji Hongyu and Li Kun, and then Li Kun will contact Zhang Lunlun. After a few people have determined the operation time, they will charter a car from Jinan to Xinhe on the day of the operation.
In addition to the above three persons, there are also anesthesiologist Liu Liming and instrument nurse Li Jiao. The indictment showed that a member of the gang was specifically responsible for contacting the two, and before each operation, they would drive them from Baoding to Xinhe.
The above-mentioned person close to the medical administrative approval system told the Beijing News that the anesthetist Liu Liming came from Century Concord Hospital in Baoding, and the device nurse Li Jiao came from Qiaodong Hospital in Baoding.
On January 16, 2020, a reporter from the Beijing News called the office of Baoding Century Concord Hospital. The person in charge said that Liu Li was clearly a doctor in the hospital and is still working in the hospital. On the same day, the doorman of Baoding Qiaodong Hospital told the Beijing News reporter that there are currently no more than three medical staff in the hospital and there is no Li Jiao.
On November 21, 2018, in that humble operating room, a person wearing a surgical gown again asked Li Rui’s opinion: Are you sure to perform a kidney removal operation? After getting a definite answer, he let Li Rui take off his clothes, lay on the side of the operating bed, and also gave Li Rui a shot of anesthetic near the lumbar spine. Li Rui remembers that someone squeezed his leg and squeezed his arm, and then he knew nothing …
At the same time, Shu Kang was waiting in another bungalow in the small courtyard. After Li Rui’s successful kidney removal operation, Shu Kang’s kidney transplant operation is about to begin.
Interprovincial recuperation after renal receptor operation
The night after the kidney transplant operation ended, the recipient Shu Kang left Hebei Xinhe and was sent to Yantai, Shandong for medical treatment. Multiple defendants’ confessions show that there are three people in the gang, including Han Huilong, who are responsible for post-transplantation of kidney receptors. Before working with Guolin and others, they all operated black ambulance business in Beijing.
According to Han Huilong, after the recipient came out of the small hospital where the operation was performed, the recipient was first sent by a private car to a gas station near Xinhe County. Before dawn, the recipient will be transferred from a private car to a privately operated black ambulance before being sent to Yantai.
In Yantai, Shandong Sen Zhusen is in charge of contacting convalescence. According to Zhu Sen’s confession, he sold his right kidney in 2013, and then began to deal with the underground kidney; before the Xinhe case in Hebei, he and Guolin had organized illegal kidney transplants in Linyi, Shandong, and got to know each other. Shandong fellow Wang Haibin.
Unlike Guolin and Zhu Sen, who are unemployed, Wang Haibin is a retired doctor at a military hospital in Yantai. He is 57 years old this year. Through Wang Haibin’s relationship, Shu Kang and other recipients were arranged to Yantai Renji Urology Hospital (hereinafter referred to as “Renji Hospital”). According to Zhu Sen’s statement, Guo Lin paid 50,000 yuan for each recipient’s post-operative convalescence. But he only transferred 20,000 yuan to Wang Haibin, and agreed that the post-operative recuperation period was 7 days.
On April 13, 2020, a reporter from the Beijing News came to Renji Hospital, Fuhai Road, Fushan District, Yantai City. There were few patients in the hospital. There are only two people waiting for treatment in the Liuguan Infusion Room on the second floor of the outpatient clinic, and only one patient in the 5 inpatient wards on the third floor.
According to Li Fang, president of Renji Hospital, Wang Haibin joined Renji Hospital around 2017, and was a doctor in the hospital before the incident. “At that time, he came with his resume and doctor’s qualification certificate and wanted to cooperate with the hospital. He promised not to get a salary but would bring the patient and divide half of the patient’s income.” Li Fang said that the hospital took Wang Haibin It is the senior military doctor’s qualifications, agreed to join, and notified the human resources department to handle the onboarding procedures.
But Song Li, director of the nursing department of Renji Hospital, denied this. She said that Wang Haibin was not a doctor at Renji Hospital, “it was from Peking University (Yantai Laishan) Hospital”, and Wang and Renji Hospital were only a loose partnership.
On April 26, 2020, a reporter from the Beijing News found on the official website of the National Health and Construction Commission on the “Practitioner Registration Information” page that there was no Wang Haibin among the registered practicing doctors in Renji Hospital; “The person’s practice scope is internal medicine.
As for which patients Wang Haibin introduced to Renji Hospital, Li Fang said he did not know. “Patients are in charge of the attending doctors when they come to the hospital. Wang Haibin is the attending doctor. I have never asked about these patients.”
Li Fang said that from August to November 2018, when the recipients of kidney transplant surgery in Xinhe County were recuperating at Renji Hospital, they accompanied their children abroad to study. If it was not for the Xinhe County Public Security Bureau to come to the hospital to investigate after the incident, she did not know that the hospital had admitted many convalescent patients undergoing irregular kidney transplantation.
But Song Li said that Li Fang knew that these patients had received irregular kidney transplants. “She (referring to Li Fang) personally arranged the nursing department to cooperate with Wang Haibin’s work, and made it clear that these patients had kidney transplants, and they were not done in regular hospitals.” Song Li said that she had worried about whether it is legal to admit such patients “But Dean Li’s lover is a lawyer. She said that her lover said that it is illegal to give patients a kidney transplant operation in the early stage, and it is not illegal to convalesce for the patient in the later period.”
Song Li also said that once, the hospital admitted two such patients at the same time, but there was only one ECG monitor in the hospital, which was not enough. She reported to Li Fang. After coordination, the hospital borrowed an ECG monitor from outside. Li Fang could not have been unaware of this.
After the incident, Li Fang provided testimony to the public security organs that from 2017 to 2018, Wang Haibin introduced 26 patients to Renji Hospital, 19 of whom were postoperative recuperative kidney transplant patients, and 8 were from Hebei Xinhe Kidney receptors are also included.
According to Song Li, from about the beginning of 2018, Renji Hospital began to treat convalescent patients with irregular kidney transplants. They were taken to the hospital by ambulance in the morning. They did not go through the inpatient procedures and did not build a file, and they were directly admitted to the inpatient ward on the third floor. During the hospitalization, they were all under the responsibility of Wang Haibin. Because there were no cases, Wang Haibin wrote a note whenever he gave the doctor’s advice, and the nurse took the medicine and took the medicine accordingly. “Wang Haibin also asked the nurses who had given specific care not to inquire into the privacy of patients’ personal information,” Song Li said.
On April 17, 2020, two nurses who had participated in the care of the recipient confirmed Song Li’s statement about the nursing situation to the reporter of the Beijing News. Nurse Liang Fei said, “After the patient was discharged from the hospital, I asked Dr. Wang (Wang Haibin) how to deal with the nursing record sheet. He said that it would be fine to throw it away.”
According to Song Li, she and Li Fang and Liang Fei were criminally detained by the Xinhe County Public Security Bureau on charges of organizing the sale of human organs before and after the Spring Festival in 2019, and later transferred to bail pending trial. Li Fang said that after investigation, the police confiscated more than 180,000 yuan from the illegal admission of patients in the hospital.
On May 6, 2020, a staff member of Yanshan City ’s Fushan District Health and Family Planning Supervision Office told the Beijing News reporter that he was not aware of the treatment of patients after Renji Hospital ’s treatment of illegal kidney transplants. situation. The staff said that this case is already a criminal case, and everything is handled by the public security organ.
Kidney sellers hardly get compensation from criminal gangs
Unlike the recipient Shu Kang who was sent to the hospital for convalescence, after the kidney removal operation on November 21, 2018, the donor Li Rui was sent to a courtyard in a village in Xinhe County for convalescence.
Early the next morning, after regaining consciousness, Li Rui found himself lying in a strange bungalow infusion. It was a man in his thirties who helped him infusion, and he was not tall and had a round face. After the incident, Xinhe police told him that this man was named Xu Ning.
On January 16, 2020, Xu Ning’s father told the Beijing News reporter that Xu Ning had studied medicine many years ago but was not qualified to practice medicine.
On the bedside table in the convalescence bungalow, Li Rui saw a red transparent plastic bag with a thick stack of 100 yuan in cash. Xu Ning said that a total of 49,000 yuan was in the bag. “Forty-five thousand yuan is for selling kidney money, and the remaining four thousand yuan is for red envelopes given by kidney people.”
Li Rui stayed here for 7 days because he could not leave the hospital and watch TV in the house. An old man takes care of his daily life and cooks for him, but three meals a day is either porridge or steamed bread and noodles. There is only one vegetarian dish per meal. Li Rui wanted to eat something good, so he gave the old man 400 yuan and asked him to buy a fish, a chicken and some fruits.
In the meantime, a thin and tall man in his 20s often came to Li Rui’s room to chat. “The man said he was from Zhejiang, and he owed money for gambling to sell his kidneys. His operation was 5 days earlier than me. Selling kidney money was as much as 45,000 as I did, but buying kidneys gave him more red packets than me 3000 yuan. “Li Rui said.
One night after leaving the nursing home, Li Rui was returned to his cell phone, put on his blindfold again, and a private car took him to Xingtai Bus Station. After a night in the hotel, he took a bus from Xingtai to Jinan, and then transferred to a sleeper bus to return to Yibin. The bus drove for more than 20 hours, bumping all the way, Li Rui’s unhealed wounds were bleeding, and the mattress underneath was wet.
As soon as he returned home, Li Rui went to the dealership to pay back his cousin. The boss learned that this was the income from selling his kidneys and forgave his debts. He then transferred 15,000 yuan to his sister, and asked her to take her mother who worked part-time to the hospital to see a doctor, buy some clothes and delicious food. He told his sister the origin of the money, but he specifically told him not to tell his mother the truth.
As for the remaining money, he deposited 30,000 yuan in the bank.
In February 2019, Li Rui returned to Haiyan, Zhejiang to work in a carton factory. After a night shift, he suddenly fainted, and the doctor said he lacked a kidney and could no longer do heavy work. “Until now, I haven’t been able to stay up late for a long time, and I can’t exercise violently. When I run, the edge of the knife will hurt painfully,” Li Rui said.
In July 2019, Li Rui, who thought he would never have a relationship with Shu Kang, suddenly received a strange call. The other party claimed to be Shu Kang’s father. “He said that Shu Kang’s kidney had recently experienced rejection, and hoped that I would go to Guangzhou for a blood test. They will pay for the travel expenses and will pay me another 5,500 yuan for compensation.”
After more than half an year, Li Rui saw his kidney receptors again. Compared with before, Shu Kang looked much better. Li Rui didn’t say anything or ask anything, and returned immediately after drawing blood in a hospital in Guangzhou and receiving compensation.
On November 29, 2018, the Xinhe County Public Security Bureau arrested 12 suspects including Guolin and other criminal suspects in the illegal operation site and the Nangong Sifang Hotel. At that time, the small hospital was preparing for another kidney transplant operation. After the incident, two other suspects surrendered to the police.
An investigation by the Xinhe County Public Security Bureau found that from August to November 2018, the suspect Guolin et al. Carried out 9 illegal kidney transplant operations in that small hospital, including 8 operations.
Although the police checked the surgical equipment in the small hospital afterwards, on January 23, 2020, the reporter of the Beijing News still saw the case examination data of suspected renal receptors and donors, as well as scalpels, drainage tubes, hemostatic forceps, etc. For medical devices, there are 3 suture needles in a small yellow bucket with blood stains on the needles.
On September 19, 2019, the Xinhe County Procuratorate filed a public prosecution with the Xinhe County Court against this gang suspected of organizing the sale of human organs; on November 26, the Xinhe County Court heard the case in public and all 14 defendants arrived court.
According to a person close to the judicial system of Hebei Province, on April 29, 2020, the Xinhe County Court made a first-instance judgment on the case, and the 14 defendants all constituted the crime of organizing the sale of human organs. Among them, 5 defendants including Guo Lin, Zhu Sen, Xu Ning, and Ji Hongyu were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 7 to 4 years and fined; 9 were Wang Haibin, Liu Liming, Li Kun, Zhang Lunlun, Li Jiao, Han Huilong, etc. The defendant was sentenced to probation.
In addition, the 14 accused persons and Renji Hospital’s stolen funds totaled more than 1.399 million yuan were confiscated and turned over to the State Treasury; at the same time, the operation beds, hand-push sterilized vehicles, surgical shadowless lamps and heart Electric monitor.
After the case, Li Rui and his father sought a lawyer and had consulted with the Xinhe County Court, hoping to punish the defendant severely while seeking more compensation for Li Rui. Father Li said that after all, his son had lost a kidney, and Shukang couldn’t recover the loss with more compensation.
But the lawyer told the father and son that there was little hope of obtaining compensation. “Some people said that I was a voluntary act,” Li Rui said.
In response, Yin Qingli, a lawyer in Beijing, said that, looking at the case, the kidney seller knew that his behavior was illegal but insisted on it. There was a subjective fault. “In this case, claiming compensation, it is difficult to get a satisfactory result.”
(Li Rui, Shu Kang, Xiao Ping, Ge Xiong, Li Fang, Song Li, and Liang Fei are pseudonyms)
(Text | Li Yingqiang, reporter of the Beijing News)
