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Wed, Nov 19, 2008
The Straits Times
Kidney middleman fails appeal, goes to jail

THE middleman in the illegal kidney-for-sale case started his 14-month jail term on Wednesday afternoon, after the High Court dismissed his appeal.Justice V. K. Rajah, sending out a message that organ trafficking will not be tolerated in Singapore, said the sentence was 'amply justified.'

Wang Chin Sing, 44, received the stiffest sentence among four men who have been sentenced in the case. Ailing retail magnate Tang Wee Sung, 56, who bought a kidney through Wang, was fined a total of $17,000 and jailed a day.

An Indonesian man who offered his kidney to Mr Tang was jailed two weeks, while another Indonesian man who sold his kidney to another recipient, Ms Juliana Soh, was jailed 3 1/2 months and fined $2,000.

 


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