Prosecutors from the Prosecutor’s Office at District Court 1 searched the headquarters of a medical clinic in the capital accused of organ trafficking, namely the importation into Romania of approximately 300 corneas used for transplantation, Agerpres reports.

“On 08/22/2022, the prosecutors of the State Prosecutor’s Office at the 1st District Court of Bucharest on 08/22/2022 ordered the further prosecution of several individuals and legal entities for committing the crime of introducing or removing from the country organs, tissue or cells of human origin without a special permit issued by the National Transplantation Agency . The content of the resolution states that in the period 2019-2021, the medical clinic and its administrator at different time intervals and in fulfillment of one criminal decision imported tissues of human origin into the territory of Romania. , accordingly, a significant number of corneas, without a special permit issued by the National Agency for Transplantation. On 08/25/2022, the search warrant was executed with the support of police officers from the Bucharest Municipality Police Headquarters – Criminal Investigation Service,” prosecutor Kelin Radu Bohdan, spokesman for the prosecutor’s office attached to the court, Sector 1, said on Friday.

He specified that the investigation in this case began after referral to the judicial authorities and until now there have been no complaints from patients who have benefited from corneal transplantation.

According to the prosecutor, the tissues used for transplantation were brought from an organ bank in Italy, it is about 300 corneas.