BY: Elena Chong

WANG Chin Sing, 43, the alleged middleman in the kidney-for-sale cases, was to be paid $300,000 to get a kidney from a living donor for ailing CK Tang's chairman Tang Wee Sung.

The former musician is said to have arranged with various people to buy the kidney from Indonesian Sulaiman Danik, 26, in June.

This is one of the 10 charges which Wang was slapped with when he was hauled to court on Thursday morning.

He is charged under the Human Organ Transplant Act, which bans the sale of human organs, and anyone who aids in setting up such a transaction can be jailed up to a year.

Mr Tang, 56, who had to see a doctor in the morning, is expected to be charged on Thursday afternoon.

Sulaiman was to have received about 150 million rupiah (about S$23,700) for supplying his organ. He was dealt with last week together with another Indonesian and was released last Saturday after serving his three-week jail term.

He was arrested on June 19 after the ethics committee had given the approval for the transplant but the authorities stepped in before it could go ahead.

The other Indonesian, Toni, received 186 million rupiah (about S$29,390) after giving up his kidney to Indonesian woman Juliana Soh in March.

He then turned runner for a syndicate and came back in June to act as a liaison between Sulaiman and Mr Tang for a fee.

Last week, he was packed off to jail for three months two weeks and a $2,000 fine or two weeks in jail.

Wang is also alleged to have sourced Ms Soh's kidney from Toni and was paid about $8,000.

The other charges accuse him of having instigated Mr Tang, Toni and Sulaiman to make false statutory declarations about being related to the recipients and that no money changed hands.

He is also said to have instigated the two Indonesians and Mr Tang to lie to the ethics transplant committee.

Bail of $30,000 was allowed.

A pre-trial hearing has been fixed for Wang, who is represented by Mr Shashi Nathan, on July 21.