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Singapore doctor says he was cleared in illegal organ-buying case
Aug 30, 2008, 8:01 GMT
Singapore - The head of a transplant society in Singapore said he has been cleared in a scheme to illegally buy a kidney and continues to practise medicine.
'The authorities have investigated the case, and I have not been implicated,' Dr Lye Wai Choong said, according to The Straits Times newspaper Saturday.
Lye, director of the Society of Transplantation in Singapore, was to have performed a kidney transplant this year on retail magnate Tang Wee Sung, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegally trying to purchase a kidney from an Indonesian donor.
Another person in the case, Wang Chin Sing, pleaded guilty Friday to five counts of facilitating the illegal kidney deal.
Wang's attorney charged Lye with asking his client to conduct organ transplant transactions overseas for other patients. The lawyer argued that Wang, who is to be sentenced this coming week, did not deserve a long jail term because there were others more guilty in the case, such as Lye.
Tang, who resigned as executive director of CK Tang department store after his guilty plea, tried to illegally purchase a kidney for 300,000 Singapore dollars (220,588 US dollars) but was caught before the transaction went through.
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