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Part Three

Windows of the Soul

Collected on the Internet, October 2011:

Kidney and other organ prices on the global criminal markets are based upon publicly available reports and are quoted in US dollars The price represents the aan or the price paid by the buyer for the organ

Average paid by kidney buyer: 150,000

Average paid to seller of kidney: 5,000

Kidney broker in Yemen: 60,000

Kidney broker in the Philippines: 1,000 to 1,500

Kidney buyer in Israel: 125,000 to 135,000

Kidney buyer in Moldova: 100,000 to 250,000

Kidney buyer in Singapore: 300,000

Kidney buyer in United States: 30,000

Kidney buyer in China: 87,000

Kidney buyer in Saudi Arabia: 16,000

Kidney seller in Bangladesh: 2,500

Kidney seller in China: 15,000

Kidney seller in Egypt: 2,000

Kidney seller in Kenya: 650

Kidney seller in Moldova: 2,500 to 3,000

Kidney seller in Peru: 5,000

Kidney seller in Ukraine: 200,000

Kidney seller in Vietnam: 2,410

Kidney seller in Yemen: 5,000

Kidney seller in the Philippines: 2,000 to 10,000

Liver buyer in China: 21,900

Liver seller in China: 3,660

Courtesy of havocscopecom

11 - S to die

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