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By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
THE Indonesian Embassy has appointed a lawyer to represent the two men in the kidney-for-sale case.
The lawyer, Mr Mohamed Muzammil Mohamed, on Wednesday asked for a day's adjournment till Thursday to prepare a written mitigation plea for Sulaiman Damanik, 26, and Toni, 27.
Both Indonesians pleaded guilty last Friday to charges of making false statutory declarations and entering into arrangements to sell their kidneys to two individuals. CK Tang executive chairman Tang Wee Sung, 55, was one of the patients cited in court documents, who had offered to pay more than S$20,000 for an organ.
Toni became 186 million rupiah richer (about S$29,390) after his kidney was successfully transplanted into an Indonesian patient, Ms Juliana Soh, at Mount Elizabeth Hospital.
The authorities stepped in and arrested Sulaiman last month before Mr Tang could receive the kidney.
Sulaiman had agreed to sell his kidney to Mr Tang for 150 million rupiah (about S$23,700) after the kidney transplant had been carried out.
In both cases, the donors had lied about being related to the patients and also about not being paid for their organs.
Organ trading is banned here and in most countries worldwide.
There are about 600 people waiting for a kidney here, with an average waiting time of nine years.
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