Cohan spent several months in an Italian jail in the late 1990s on ultimately unsubstantiated allegations that he was buying and selling organs.

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Selling organs, including kidneys, to people who desperately need them?

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Buying and selling human organs is against the law in this country, whether from live or dead bodies.

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Augustine's Hospital busted a global ring: Slum-dwellers from Brazil and Moldova were selling their organs to an Israeli-led broker network, which then used the Internet to pull together over 100 willing kidney transplant patients from Israel, Europe and the U.S. Donors and recipients, posing as relatives, were flown to South Africa and operated on by elite doctors in Durban.

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Their friends in the press, especially in the Prisa group which owns, among other organs, Spain's best-selling newspaper, El Pais, are in full investigative cry.

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