
The Global Organ Trafficking Network
A kidney transplant clinic in Eldoret, Kenya becomes the center of an international investigation after DW reporters spend months tracing an organ trafficking network that promises dialysis patients a new kidney within weeks. Recipients from Germany and Israel pay up to €200,000 to traffickers, while donors recruited from the Caucasus, including Azerbaijan, and young Kenyans offered as little as 4,000 euros for a kidney, supply the organs. The film follows the money and the paperwork through the clinic and examines evidence that local authorities and politicians look away from or actively shield the trade. News footage from Kenyan outlets including The Standard, Capital News, and The Star supplements the reporting, and the piece closes with a note that Boris Wolfman, an alleged mastermind of the ring, was arrested in Moscow. It is a tightly reported piece of investigative journalism built on months of tracking a black market that trades on the desperation of the sick on one end and the poverty of donors on the other.