A KUCHING court has today extended the remand order for a man under investigation by police for his suspected involvement in an international human organ trafficking ring.

Assistant Registrar of Kuching Subordinate Court, Dora Undau, granted the five-day extension against the 48-year-old man following an application submitted by the investigating officer Nor Elyanis Mohd Yusoff.

The suspect was brought to the magistrate’s court today after the first remand order of seven days expired yesterday.

The man had surrendered himself and was placed under arrest on August 13 at Kuching police headquarters.

Sarawak deputy police commissioner Dev Kumar M. M. Sree in a statement after the arrest said, the suspect turned up at the police headquarters after knowing that he was being sought to investigate his interview to British tabloid The Sun that he was a human organ trader, which was published on August 8.

In the news report, the suspect said he could arrange illegal transplant tourism packages for Britons at a fee of £85,000 (RM470,000).

He was also reported to have organised 45 illicit kidney sales and had used Facebook to lure poverty-stricken victims from around the world to sell their organs to desperate patients.

Police are investigating the case under Section 15 of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007. – Bernama, August 21, 2020.