Surgeon arrested for blackmailing patients

The prosecutor submitted 20 accusations against him, but refused to elaborate on evidence in possession. Most accusations concerned the defendant demanding bribes from patients ranging from a few hundred zloty to a few thousand. The Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) was informed of the misconduct by hospital employees. The accused doctor carried out 35 transplants out of a country-wide total of 91 in 2006, and now faces life imprisonment. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1, A3) M.M.