By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent

TWO Indonesian men who are the first to be prosecuted for a kidney-for-sale case were jailed and fined on Thursday.

Sulaiman Damanik, 26, who had earlier admitted to entering into an arrangement with Wang Chin Sing to sell his kidney to CK Tang's executive chairman Tang Wee Sung for about 150 million rupiah (S$23,700) last month, was jailed for two weeks and fined $1,000.

He also admitted to falsely declaring that no money was paid and that Mr Tang's niece's brother-in-law married his aunt.

The operation did not go through as the authorities stepped in after the transplant ethics committee had approved the application for a live kidney transplant based on the false information given.

The other Indonesian, Toni,, 27, who acted as a liaison man between Sulaiman and Mr Tang, was jailed three months and two weeks, and also fined $2,000.

His kidney was successfully transplanted into Ms Juliana Soh who paid him 186 million rupiah (S$29,390) in March.

He was to have been paid 20 million rupiah (about S$3,200) for being a 'runner'' if Sulaiman's operation was successful.

The other two offences he pleaded guilty to were for selling his kidney to Ms Soh and making a false statutory declaration that no money was paid and that Ms Soh was his adopted mother.