Last update – 01:18 12/12/2001

By Ran Reznick

Romanian authorities are looking into possible links between Israeli adoption agencies and an illegal global conspiracy to sell organs for transplants.

The Romanian Embassy in Israel has asked for, and received from the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry, a list of all children born in Romania who have been brought to Israel for adoption in recent years. The Romanian officials are trying to ascertain if all such children arrived in Israel with all organs in their bodies. (more…)

She is just one among hundreds of Israelis to adopt Brazilian-born infants, and she insists that her son’s papers are all in order.

She is just one among hundreds of Israelis to adopt Brazilian-born infants, and she insists that her son’s papers are all in order.

But at the same time, she admits that she helped bribe Brazilian officials to expedite the boy’s adoption and never got his real mother’s signature on the birth certificate. And now, like many others, she is suddenly so afraid that she will not even give her name.

”I paid for the adoption service, and they told me that most of the money went to bribe the police and judge,” said the 35-year-old mother of a child now 2 years old. ”They brought me the papers and asked me to sign, so I signed them. But I was never in court.” (more…)