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- BERLIN (Agence France Presse)
- Germany's secret service has reported that Russian gangs are killing
street-children and selling their organs to rich patients in Russia and
the West, the weekly Focus said in an article Saturday.
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- A spokeswoman for the secret service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst
(BND), in the southern town of Pullach, near Munich, confirmed the existence
of the document, saying it had been submitted to the government in April.
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- She said the information gleaned was "credible,"
but should nevertheless be treated with caution.
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- Focus said the report showed Russian police were powerless
to stop the organ trafficking, adding that the disappearance of street-children
was not usually registered.
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- But police in Saint Petersburg had found over the past
few years more and more bodies of street-children with their internal organs
removed, it said.
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- Focus said the BND reported that a gang of doctors in
Novosibirsk controlled a bank of frozen organs from children and young
people, with false death certificates, sometimes giving the cause of death
as the result of an accident during an operation. ((c) 1999 Agence France
Presse)
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