Police arrest 9 for suspected kidney ring at military hospital
Police arrested nine people, including Chinese and Vietnamese nationals, on Saturday in connection with a kidney trafficking ring involving the state-run Preah Ket Mealea military hospital, officials said Sunday. Among the nine are the hospital’s director, deputy director and a Chinese professor who was training Cambodian doctors, said Lieutenant Colonel Keo Thea, chief of the Phnom Penh anti-human trafficking police. … The National Military Police spokesman, Kheng Tito, said a complaint was filed against the military hospital to military police, who cooperated with municipal police to bring in the nine people for questioning. Defense Minister Tea Banh visited the hospital Sunday morning and vehemently denied that it was part of a kidney trafficking ring. …
