Polish border guards have detained a 35-year-old Ukrainian woman, identified under Polish privacy laws as Ksenia P., who was sentenced in Kazakhstan to 12 years in prison for her involvement in an organized criminal group trafficking human organs and selling 56 kidneys, prosecutors announced on Tuesday.
Polish authorities arrested 35-year-old Ukrainian national Ksenia P. at a railway crossing between Poland and Ukraine under an Interpol red notice.
Prosecutors have not revealed why she was not imprisoned in Kazakhstan at the time of her arrest or when she was convicted.
Prosecutors stated that Ksenia P. had been wanted by Interpol since November 2020.
An Interpol red notice serves as a request for global law enforcement to provisionally arrest an individual pending extradition or legal proceedings.
According to spokeswoman Marta Petkowska, she was convicted for her role in an international organized crime group that illegally harvested and sold human organs on the black market between 2017 and 2019.
She was also convicted of illegally obtaining “kidneys from 56 injured parties in Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Thailand” for financial benefit and of “making the crimes committed a permanent source of income.”
Prosecutors have filed a motion requesting a court to impose a one-week temporary arrest to facilitate her extradition.
