India | Updated Feb 29, 2008 at 01:32am IST

Kidney Kingpin's accomplice confesses

New Delhi: K K Aggarwal, an accomplice of kidney racket kingpin Amit Kumar, confessed to interrogators that he administrated anesthesia in over 100 kidney transplant operations and was given Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 per case, sources said.

He also told them that migrant labourers, whose kidneys were removed, were paid around Rs 50,000 each and most of the surgeries were performed by Amit Kumar.

Amit Kumar had agents in various countries who remained in touch with him via mobile phone, and a large number of foreigners received kidney transplants and paid handsomely for them, the sources added.

CBI sources say they are going to make the kidney racket kingpin Amit undergo a brain mapping test soon.

Amit Kumar was arrested from a resort in Nepal on the February 7 and later deported to India.

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