Italian border authorities arrested 77-year-old Israeli
citizen Gedaliah Taub on Friday on suspicion of
international human organ trafficking.
Taub was
detained at the Rome airport after officials
determined his passport was forged.
Rome
police told Maariv that Brazil had issued an
international arrest warrant for Taub after he fled
the South American country in 2009 during a
leave from prison,
where he was serving a nine-year sentence for
organ trafficking.
Taub reportedly arrived in Rome on Thursday
and presented the border officials his Israeli passport.
The official noted that Taub was behaving
anxiously and upon further inspection, discovered
that the date of birth on the passport had been
altered. The Israeli citizen was taken for questioning
and his fingerprints were run in an international
database, which revealed that he was wanted in
Brazil.
A search of his belongings further revealed
that he was carrying multiple passports as well
as a knife. Taub was promptly arrested and
sent to a local jail where he awaits extradition to Brazil.
The Italian police officer in charge of the
case, told Maariv that he spoke to colleagues
in Brazil, who told him Taub was a former IDF
officer who served as the leader of a human
organ trafficking ring that offered poor Brazilians
to sell him their kidneys for $12,000.
“We know of at least 19 cases in which Brazilian
citizens sold their kidneys to Taub and his friends,
” the Brazilian officials told their Italian counterpart.
They added that the traffickers would send their
victims to South Africa, where doctors would
remove their kidneys and transplant them in the
bodies of wealthy buyers.
Brazil issued the arrest warrant in 2010, after
Taub went missing, failing to return from a
prison leave.
The Israeli embassy in Rome received notice
of Taub’s arrest. He is entitled to a visit by
the ambassador.
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