The Mainichi Daily News
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A 56-year-old Tokyo doctor was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for buying a kidney which he received in a transplant operation.
The Tokyo District Court also gave a 30-month jail term to Noriko Horiuchi, the 48-year-old wife of the doctor Toshinobu Horiuchi, for conspiring with her husband to arrange the buying of the kidney, in violation of the organ transplant law.
The doctor, who suffered from kidney failure, paid 8 million yen to a 48-year-old female intermediary in exchange for receiving the organ from a 21-year-old unemployed man in July 2010, according to the ruling.
Presiding Judge Atsuo Wakazono said the couple's act "impaired the principle of equality for organ transplants."
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