FIA Busts Illegal Kidney‑Transplant Network in Islamabad

Overview

• The FIA carried out a raid that took place Thursday and arrested five suspects linked to an organised scheme that allegedly arranged commercial kidney transplants from residential premises.
• Investigators recovered Rs1 million in cash, seized three vehicles and froze two Islamabad properties valued at Rs87.5 million while securing seven‑day remands for the five detained suspects.
• The agency says a recipient paid Rs3 million for a transplant and that intermediaries recruited donor Ramzan Arshad with a promised Rs400,000, of which Rs340,000 was reportedly paid and Rs60,000 taken as agents’ commission.
• FIA investigators allege the group used forged referral letters, false donor names and hospital testing channels to bypass Human Organ Transplantation Authority rules for related‑donor transplants, and inspections by HOTA, IHRA and DRAP are under way.
• Authorities have sent notices to banks, frozen vehicle registrations and signalled possible separate money‑laundering proceedings, a move that could expose how illicit proceeds were invested and affect vulnerable donors and patients seeking legal transplants.