Post kidney scam,doctor’s Canada,Australia property to be seized

Amit Kumar,an ayurvedic doctor,owns properties in Canada,Australia and in some Southeast Asian countries. He was arrested in connection with the notorious kidney racket case that shook the country in 2008.

Sources said the first property likely to be attached is in Australia for which papers were moved long time back.

Besides owning a property in Sunbury area,Kumar is also alleged to have a bank account there.

Sources said many of Kumar’s clients were rich foreigners who paid huge amount of money for a kidney transplant.

Kumar,arrested from Nepal in early 2008 by a team of CBI sleuths,was allegedly operating from a clinic in Gurgaon.

His brother was also arrested in connection with the same case.

Sources said Australian authorities have been very helpful in the case.

The racket was run through a network of middlemen,who scouted for possible donors. ED is the chief agency when it comes to Foreign Exchange Management Act and PMLA.

Under the PMLA,the agency can attach properties of an individual accused in the case to strengthen his prosecution.