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JERUSALEM — Six Israelis were detained on suspicion of running an international organ trafficking ring and breaking promises to donors to pay for their removed kidneys, police said Wednesday...

...an FBI sting in New Jersey exposed an organ trafficking ring that operated for more than a decade. Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, an American, was charged with conspiring to arrange the sale of an Israeli citizen's kidney for $160,000.

Organ donors in that case were brought to the U.S. from Israel, where their kidneys were removed, according to the indictment.

The New Jersey case mushroomed from an investigation into money laundering and trafficking in kidneys and fake designer bags to a political corruption probe, resulting in 44 arrests.

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JERUSALEM — Six Israelis were detained on suspicion of running an international organ trafficking ring and breaking promises to donors to pay for their removed kidneys, police said Wednesday...

...an FBI sting in New Jersey exposed an organ trafficking ring that operated for more than a decade. Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, an American, was charged with conspiring to arrange the sale of an Israeli citizen's kidney for $160,000.

Organ donors in that case were brought to the U.S. from Israel, where their kidneys were removed, according to the indictment.

The New Jersey case mushroomed from an investigation into money laundering and trafficking in kidneys and fake designer bags to a political corruption probe, resulting in 44 arrests.

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