The 35 -year -old women obtain a 12 -year prison term in Poland for selling 56 human kidneys

The Polish border guards arrested a Ukrainian woman who was sentenced in Kazakhstan to 12 years in prison for participating in an organized criminal group that trades in human organs and sold 56 kidneys, prosecutors said Tuesday.

The 35 -year -old woman, mentioned only as Ksenia P. under Polish privacy laws, was arrested in a railroad that crossed between Poland and Ukraine under a warning of Interpol Red, said Marta Petkowska, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office in Przemysl, in a statement.

Prosecutors did not say why the woman was not in prison in Kazakhstan at the time she was arrested at the crossing or when she was convicted.

Interpol has sought it since November 2020, prosecutors said. A warning of Interpol Red is a request to the global police to provisionally arrest a person waiting for extradition or similar legal actions.

The woman was convicted of participating in an international organized criminal group that illegally collected fabrics and organs of people from 2017 to 2019 and sold them in the black market, added Petkowska.

It was also condemned to obtain illegally “kidneys of 56 parts injured in Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzista, Tayikistan, Uzbekistan and Thailand” for financial benefits and “make crimes commit a permanent source of income.”

The Prosecutor’s Office presented a motion to a court to request the temporary arrest of a week so that it could be extradited to Kazakhstan.

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