During the influx of Ukrainian refugees into Germany, the German Federal Police suddenly issued a strange warning to those who came to the Berlin railway station to be careful of those who provided accommodation, because people with such accommodation were most likely to sell it as a "commodity" and secretly sell it. Women, in particular, may be sexually abused by criminals, even imprisoned and trafficked.
After all, this is not without precedent, and with the outbreak of war, all kinds of cases of disappearance of children and teenagers have emerged one after another. According to foreign media reports, many rescue organizations and volunteers have reported cases of missing people, reaching thousands. Where have all these people gone? What happened to them? No one knows.
However, looking at the black market history related to Ukraine, there is a black market network that is chilling, it is the Ukrainian human organ trafficking business.
In 2004, german police revealed that a domestic medical company called Tutogen was involved in the dirty business of buying and selling human organs, and their biggest partner was the Ukrainian Forensic Research Institute. The arrested suspects admitted that their cooperation with the Ukrainian Forensic Research Institute has lasted for nearly a decade, and that under normal circumstances, a body is sent to the institute and divided up quickly, some pre-ordered organs are immediately removed and frozen to preserve freshness, while the remaining parts that have no market depend on the situation.
So what if the body is found damaged by relatives of the deceased? The people at these institutes already had a way to deal with it, they would insert the body with a prepared wooden stick, keep the body in its original state until the end of the funeral, if there were relatives who chose to cremate, it would be more convenient, who would explore the organs for a pile of ashes that could not be seen in its original appearance?
Body tissue waiting to be removed is often stored in underground freezers, where German companies come every once in a while to take organs and pay the institute according to the number of organs. In this way, these human tissues from Ukraine are continuously transported to all parts of the world.
But not all organs can be successfully found by the purchaser, some organs have been removed, but may be difficult to transplant in time for various reasons, under this premise, the company will transfer the organs to the headquarters, Noinki Blanda.
Neuenkibranda is only a small town in northern Bavaria, Germany, with a very small population, not the size of a small county town in China. However, it is inevitable that a large pharmaceutical company in Germany would dare to set up its headquarters here. From the outside, the processing plant at the headquarters has only a few low warehouses, and the construction staff is only 140, which is too low-key to be low-key.
But who would have thought that in these low houses, there are hundreds of kneecap tendons, nearly a thousand kneecaps, fibulas, foot bones and more than 20,000 other human organs.
Medical companies basically cover everything you can think of, it can provide bones, cartilage, even skin corneas and even the heart, in their words, all organs can be called human tissue, but the thing that interests them the most is bone, after all, this thing lasts longer, but it is more complex to process. In the twenty-first century when the Internet is constantly evolving, Tutogan has even launched an online ordering service, where customers in more than 40 countries around the world can submit orders to the company through the Internet.
According to incomplete statistics, in 2000 and 2001 alone, more than 1,000 corpses were "stolen" and became the company's commodity, but this is obviously not enough to support the company's huge network of organ trafficking. In their financial bulletin, Tutogen boasted that it hoped to double the number of human tissues sold in the next few years.
In their view, this is already a complete industrial chain, whether it is thigh leg bones or human heart organs, there are prescribed price details, according to the degree of health, "commodity" age, can be divided into different grades.
In order to incentivize Ukrainian people to help them get their own supply, Tutogen also launched an acquisition incentive program, if the number of organ tissues provided by the opposing team is larger, the higher the price they offer, under which a well-trained gang can earn hundreds of euros a month.
In January 2009, the Tutogan scandal broke out and became a sensation, but it soon subsided over time.
But in December 2010, Belarus suddenly announced that it had cracked down on an international criminal gang that was illegally involved in the organ trade, most of the human tissues and organs trafficked in from Ukraine.
According to state news reports, such outlaws travel between Belarus and Ukraine, recruit so-called human organ volunteers through the Internet, and perform donor donation surgeries, sending the organs they have harvested to customers to earn remuneration, and they promise to pay each donor for organ trafficking, but after the operation, they will evaporate, leaving the victims of organ loss alone.
Just before the news was revealed, the police had identified some of the victims, mostly Ukrainians. In fact, there are many incidents of theft of human organs in the world, but ukraine is more frequent.
The theft and trafficking of organs of corpses can still be regarded as inhumane and immoral, and "renting" the organs of living people is an even more inhumane act. Ukrainian women are now faced with an irresistible environment in which organs are "leased".
"Ukrainian prostitutes" have become a common topic of conversation among EU men, and many Ukrainian women are afraid to drink water in front of strange men for fear of being drugged and sent to the black market. Even if women meet people who really want to help them, because of the environment, they have no choice but to be wary of everyone in front of them.
Some people may wonder whether the development of black industries such as organ trading and surrogacy has developed for so long, is it just that there is a domestic market in Ukraine? But as long as you take a closer look at the international news, you will find that the poorer the country, the more perfect this black industrial chain is.
The story of the black industrial chain of human organ trafficking also begins in a region called Kosovo.
Kosovo was at the heart of Europe's early illicit organ transplant trade. After the kosovo war between NATO and Yugoslavia, a group of prisoners were taken back to a transit station, which was not a prisoner-of-war camp but a hospital.
In this transformed hospital, they are faced with a variety of organ removal surgeries, after which their organs will flow to Europe and the United States and become "commodities". The leader behind these dirty businesses is the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Their business involves not only the trade of human organs, but also various types of arms smuggling and intelligence trading.
Just after the decline of the organ trade business in Kosovo due to external exposure, the organizers moved the organ trading center to Ukraine, Turkey, India and other places. On June 11, 2014, the Russian newspaper Pravda reported an article titled "In Ukraine, human organs cannot emit a foul odor", exposing the dark secret of becoming organ culture vessels after a large number of children in eastern Ukraine disappeared.
In fact, whether it is Ukraine or Palestine, or Turkey and India, the problems they face are essentially the same, that is, economic problems. No matter what kind of organ it is, whether it is the organ of a living person or the organ of a dead person, as long as it is the organ of a dead person, it will definitely bring huge illegal profits, after all, the more desperate things bring about higher profits, and some investment analysts believe that organ trading is an industry that can bring huge rates of return.
Disclosure information shows that in Ukraine funeral home owners smuggling corpses can get hundreds of dollars in tips, and as long as you are willing to pay a few thousand dollars can buy a kidney, and then go abroad to sell at a price difference of tens of thousands of dollars, a kidney can bring such a high benefit, then if you set up a company to sell dozens or even hundreds of?
In fact, Ukraine's black market network is closely related to ukraine's national unrest. In 2004, with the support of Western countries, Ukraine's pro-Western leader Yushchenko, led by supporters held a huge rally in the streets of Ukraine, supporters in order to express their opinions of the flag and clothes changed to orange, the streets can see all kinds of slogans, as well as the buses they rented, are all orange, so this event is called "Orange Revolution", and some people abroad call it "Chestnut Flower Revolution".
In order to save the economy, Ukraine's new government came up with an unexpected idea: in 2006, they defined women's prostitution as bad behavior, as long as they were caught by the police, they only needed to be fined, not detained. After the release of this policy, the number of red light districts on the streets is increasing.
The Ukrainian police have also made a lot of money under the guise of sweeping away pornography and cracking down on illegal activities. In this process, there are also a lot of ironic stories, many girls in the sale of their bodies, accidentally encounter the police to knock on the window, they will be very impatient to say that the police go farther and then pay the fine, in order to get the fine of more than ten dollars, the police will honestly stand guard for them outside the car.
At the same time, Ukraine has also spawned another interest group that sells the human body for a living, but this interest group does not only sell the female body, but the human organs we mentioned earlier. Because the medical security system in the European Union and other places is more strictly reviewed, and the medical cost is higher, the middle class of the European Union and some rich people will come to Ukraine in order to get better organ transplant treatment, and Ukraine, which is declining in the economy, will naturally not let go of this fat fish, and in the face of huge interests, Ukraine's organ trading system is becoming more and more perfect.
In 2010, the President of Ukraine changed terms, and in 2013, the new President Yanukovych decided to suspend his accession to the European Union and prepare for a total fall to Russia, which also became the fuse of the second Orange Revolution. In the face of economic pressure, the Ukrainian people did not learn the lessons of the first revolution, but went their own way and launched the second Orange Revolution.
Soon, the new government and Russia were at odds, and the people had illusions about the West, hoping that the West would help Ukraine revitalize its economy and help them get out of this mess, but the reality was very cruel, in less than a year, Ukraine's GDP growth rate fell to a negative 9.8%, the GDP also fell to negative, and almost 5 million people were unemployed. So what kind of industry will these unemployed people go to? Nature is pouring into the black market.
At the same time, the trade in organs in Ukraine is booming, and economic tragedy breeds people to go further and further down the road of evil. In 2016, there were many cases of children missing in Ukraine. The British "Daily Mail" reported on November 24 that the culprit of the disappearance was actually the child's teacher. In order to alleviate the economic crisis, the teacher colluded with the trafficking syndicate, and she came forward to gain the trust of the children, while the traffickers pretended to be policemen, abducted the children, and cruelly sold their organs.
Although this incident sounds outrageous, judging from the national conditions of Ukraine, they are not only a few dirty businesses hidden under the table. Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia's lawyer has published to the media his correspondence with the government, and from the contents of the letter, a large number of people in Ukraine are helping German hospitals steal human organs, most of which are the bodies of dead militiamen or hospitals, and of course, civilians who have been deliberately murdered are excluded.
The brutal economic situation is one of the reasons why the Ukrainian people are engaged in dirty business, but we cannot justify them, and stealing human organs is itself an illegal act of profiting from the suffering of others, which is no different from the Western politicians who caused their economic tragedy.
Carla Delponte, a well-known human rights researcher at the United Nations, once exposed the dark story of human organ trafficking in small European countries such as Ukraine in his autobiography, but these obvious violations of human rights did not arouse the anger of Western countries. Western politicians certainly do not want the truth about human trafficking in Ukraine to be discovered, after all, they are the direct beneficiaries of this industrial chain.
In the era of economic scarcity on the mainland, there are also people who will take risks and sell blood for economic benefits, but now that the mainland is constantly developing, the law is strictly supervising everyone's behavior, and the sale of human organs has been written into the criminal law, and the provisions are clear: "No organization or individual may buy or sell human organs in any form, and must not engage in activities related to the purchase and sale of human organs." ”
Although the mainland economy is more developed than that of Ukraine, and many people do not have the need to sell their bodies for their livelihoods, there are still some young people who have become "small fat sheep" in the eyes of others because of bad consumption habits.
The case of selling kidneys for Apple mobile phones, which was making a lot of noise on the Internet a few years ago, is one of the clear examples. Some people may not think so, as long as they protect the organs in the body, who dares to sell? In fact, organ trafficking is more hidden than we think, and the so-called "egg donation compensation" and "high-priced surrogacy" can be seen in the girls' toilet, which is actually a kind of organ trading.
To give a few examples, in 2014, the First Intermediate People's Court in Beijing tried a case of illegal trade in human organs that shocked the whole country at that time, in which the organizers sold a total of 51 human kidneys, involving more than 10 million yuan.
In 2017 and in October 2017, the Hunan Xiangtan police also issued a notice that they found a group of black intermediaries who sold human organs during the investigation, and their black industrial chain involved more than 10 provinces across the country, through forged identities to find young people with poor economic conditions, aged about 20 years old and unable to resist temptation, voluntarily sold human organs at a low price, and carried out live organ transplantation without any medical measures, which was extremely dangerous.
In 2019, in Anhui Huaiyuan County People's Hospital, after a 53-year-old woman died of brain death, she was "donated" by medical staff with 200,000 liver and kidney organs, and when the family found that things were not right, the medical staff even had to add money to continue to seal, because the family was too emotional, this matter was exposed, and the black industrial chain of medical staff selling organs also came out. All kinds of cases, do you still feel strange at the end of the day, is this matter far away from us? In the face of pure interests, there are always people who will take risks.
In the face of high profits, we have no way to convince others, only to resist temptations, prevent risks, and reduce the desire to consume unreasonable goods, in order to truly say goodbye to these bad industries.