Egypt's Minister of Health and Population Dr. Imad Eddin Ahmed Radi
Among those held were doctors, nurses, middlemen and organ-buyers, involved in what the ministry described as the largest organ-trafficking network exposed in Egypt to date.
"The accused who were arrested exploited the economic situation of some Egyptians and the suffering of some patients and their need for treatment to take large financial sums from them, thus breaking the law," the ministry said in a statement.
It said the investigation, which involved the Health Ministry and Administrative Control Authority, a powerful anti-corruption body, focused on a group of private hospitals and health centres, both licensed and unlicensed, where transplants and organ harvesting took place.
Comment: Though the swastika symbol predates Nazism by many centuries, and has held meanings other than the ideology we most commonly associate it with, it is interesting to note that Latvia has aligned itself politically and militarily with NATO.