20/07/2009

30 Israelis suspected of human egg trafficking arrested in Romania

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1101512.html

Some 30 Israelis were arrested in a fertility clinic in the Romanian capital Bucharest on Sunday, the Foreign Ministry confirmed.

Army Radio reported late Sunday morning that 28 of the Israelis had already been released and would return to Israel the same day.

The Israeli embassy in Bucharest is engaged in efforts to bring the remaining two detainees back to Israel.

Channel 10 quoted a Romanian TV channel as reporting that police had raided the clinic over suspicions that eggs were being traded there.

According to the report, members of the clinic's management were among those arrested.