A Japanese company in China's northeast Shenyang city was charged with illegal trading of human organs, and its juridical person, Hiroyuki Nagase, has been arrested, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said in Beijing on Tuesday.
The company had posted messages on the Internet since 2004 under the name of "China International Organ Transplant Support Centre" to provide organ transplant services for Japanese patients, which was beyond its registered business scope.
"Such an act has violated the Ministry of Health's regulations which ban the trading of human organs," Liu said.
China's first set of regulations on human organ transplant, which prohibits organizations and individuals from trading human organs in any form, went into effect this May.
Others involved in the case have also been detained and the case is still under further investigation, the spokesman added.
Source: Xinhua
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