Taking cognisance of the complaint filed by ED, Special Judge P S Teji also summoned accused Amit Kumar's brother Jeevan and his three aides Raghuvinder Singh, Rajiv Chanana and Sanjay Gupta to answer the allegations against them.
Pointing out that Kumar and his accomplices used to charge Rs 12 to 15 lakh on average from the native organ recipients and USD 25,000 to USD 30,000 from foreign clients, the ED accused them of stashing an undisclosed amount in foreign banks.
Alleging that a substantial portion of their illegally earned money has been invested in movable and immovable properties abroad, the ED pointed out that it has also managed to attach their properties in Australia in June this year.
The multi-crore rupee scandal had surfaced in January 2008 when police had arrested several people for running a kidney transplant racket in Gurgaon. Kumar was arrested in Nepal in February 2008.
In its complaint, filed through advocate Naveen Kumar Matta, the agency said accused were involved in illegal racket of kidney transplantation which is punishable under IPC, the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, and also an offence under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.ED said Amit Kumar was not a qualified surgeon but he used to perform kidney transplant surgeries.
Earlier, CBI had also filed a charge sheet in the case before a special CBI court at Ambala in Haryana. The agency had accused Amit Kumar, his brother and other associates of setting up a hospital in Gurgaon where illegal kidney transplantations were carried out from 1999 to January 2008.
Amit Kumar had started the kidney transplantation racket in 1994 in Mumbai, but fled from Mumbai after a case was registered against him, the ED complaint recalled.
He reached Jaipur and in 1995 where three new cases were registered against him, the agency told the court.
"Thereafter, he moved to Delhi where accused Amit Kumar and his brother Jeevan Kumar hatched criminal conspiracy with other accomplices and in pursuance thereof, allured innocent poor people and fraudulently removed their kidneys through surgical operations and planted the same in the bodies of recipients for a huge monetary consideration," ED said.
The accused were also running a guest house in Gurgaon where recipients were being kept at preoperative and postoperative stages, it added.
The agency further alleged that the hospital where the transplantation used to be done was not registered and in raids 10 victims and two prospective victims were also located and examined. Victims and recipients were found also at the house of the accused during raids