One day in jail for attempt to buy kidney in Singapore
A Singapore tycoon was sentenced to jail for one day for his attempt to illegally buy a kidney on the black market.
Retail tycoonTang Wee Sung was sentenced to one day in jail and fined S$17,000 ($11,813) by a Singapore court for trying to buy a kidney and lying about it in a case that’s forced lawmakers to rethink a ban on organ trading.
Tang’s “extreme ill health” was considered in sentencing the former head of CK Tang Ltd., one of the city-state’s oldest department store chains, District Judge Ng Peng Hong said today. Still, there was no suggestion Tang, 55, was driven to buying a kidney after failing to get a donated organ from a relative, or any indication he had approached family members for one, Ng said.
Tang was to pay a black market price of $300,000 for a kidney.
Organ trafficking is listed at $50 million on the Havocscope Black Market Contraband Index.
