Apparently it does happen...
Two doctors have been sent to prison in Brazil for selling contraband organs to the United States as part of a suspected trafficking scheme, law enforcement officials said Friday.
The two men, Celso Roberto Scafi and Claudio Rogerio Carneiro Fernandes, are both urologists who practiced medicine in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.
But officials allege they also were part of an organ-trafficking “mafia” in which kidneys, livers and other organs and body tissues were illegally removed from patients, some of whom were still alive, and sold.
The men were convicted at a trial in February 2013 but appealed to a higher court, which on Thursday upheld the lower court’s verdict.
The men were immediately remanded into custody and are being held at a prison in the town of Pocos de Caldas, some 500 kilometers from the state capital of Belo Horizonte.
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