[3] These rumors may have originated from a news story involving a Turkish man named Ahmet Koc, who claimed that his kidney was stolen while he was in a hospital.
[14] In 2010, a report by Swiss prosecutor Dick Marty for the Council of Europe (CoE) uncovered "credible, convergent indications"[17] of an illegal trade in human organs dating back over a decade, involving the deaths of some Serb captives.
[19] The head of the war crimes unit of EULEX, Matti Raatikainen, stated that there is no concrete evidence, including no bodies or witnesses, in the case.
[21][22][23] These allegations suggest that these individuals are being executed on demand to provide organs for transplant to recipients, and that this practice is driven by both the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong and financial incentives.
[25] The Washington Post's investigation indicated that China does not import sufficient quantities of immunosuppressant drugs, which are crucial for transplant recipients, to carry out the alleged widespread organ harvesting.
[26] Cheng, a Falun Gong practitioner, recounted how he was subjected to repeated blood tests and a subsequent forced surgery while imprisoned in China and later discovered during medical exams in the U.S. that segments of his liver and a portion of his lung had been surgically removed.
It claimed that bodies of young men from the West Bank and Gaza were returned to their families with missing organs, a report Israeli and US officials condemned as unfounded and linked to antisemitic tropes.
In December 2009, further controversy was fueled by an interview release with Yehuda Hiss, former chief pathologist at Israel's forensic institute, admitting to unauthorized organ harvesting in the 1990s, which Israeli health officials confirmed but stated had ceased.
[2] Due to organ transplantation becoming safe and universally effective, a huge potential black market in body parts was able to be exploited by murderous racketeers.