We track down the criminals who profit. Im going to check that camera, a dead individual will and if something isnt right, be far more lucrative i will delete everything on it. So, these are all notes than an individual who is alive, because an individual whos passed away can donate up to, you know,. And the victims whose bodies are butchered. 00 01 11,212 2147483051 37 20,320 i made this mistake and i dont 2147483051 37 20,320 4294966103 13 29,430 want another girl to make it. Could facilitate up to nine transplants. From different conversations. And every organ comes with a price, so you will make a lot more money if you have someone who has died. Couldnt find regular work and someone approached him. So, ive no doubt that there a broker approached him will be some areas in the world promised him a lot of money, 5000 euros, to sell his where people are killed kidney, and he agreed for their organs. To sell his kidney. Simply because they will make more money from it. This particular woman, she was only 22 years of age. This was particularly extreme. She was. In egypt, the bodies beaten and blindfolded, and physically coerced of migrants and refugees have into giving up her kidney. Reportedly been discovered when youre doing interviews, in the desert with their organs youre in the moment sometimes missing. We have pictures that appear and i think, for me, to show how they were cut up it really hits me when i get for body parts. Back, um, i wish i most are too upsetting to show. Could do more to help. Thats whats so terrifying about human trafficking. Its why its such a heinous crime, because it removes all humanity from the person involved. And because of that, they literally do see them in the same way that sean has agreed to show you sort of look, you know, at these pictures of cows us the illegal trade. Hes travelled to egypt and theyre, the cut, with our producer, laura. Different cuts of meat, its a riskyjob. It really is quite literally treating a human being like that. Globally, between 5 and 10 of transplants are thought the government here locks up to use black market organs. Critical journalists. So, the only option thats thousands of illegal operations every year. We want to find out is to pretend to be tourists. More about the criminal james bond . But its difficult because the people we need to talk networks in egypt. And this is one part of cairo where they meet. To live far from the tourist sites. They are migrants from its where you come neighbouring countries when you want to sell a kidney like sudan, with no on the black market. Sean has met some of his best contacts here. Money and no rights. Like ahmad. Translation life is too hard. But its a dangerous place to film. I didnt come this is where donors are signed here as a tourist. Up not a doctors surgery most people come or a hospital to egypt to work. I have younger siblings who but a coffee shop. The start of an illegal have forgotten about school. They go to work, life there is so tough. He sobs so, this medical procedure. Is what ahmad did. So, this is what ahmad did. As far as the cases of trafficking persons for organs removal the bribery, the terrible scar that corruption of personnel working medical personnel, doctors, of course, its a characteristic of this marks out the victim. Ahmad sold a kidney for 4,000. Form of trafficking. He was told to say he was donating his kidney to a relative for free. Translation we went to the ministry of health to give them my consent. Finding criminals wholl talk they dont care if you lie. About the organ trade they asked me about my relationship with that man. Is proving difficult. I told them, hes my relative. They wrote that and asked me to sign and give my fingerprints, so i did. And weve got another problem. The secret police are everywhere. This time its a bit more difficult. I think theres a lot more attention on Foreign Tourists and what their activities are and what were doing here. For example, we took some photographs and a policeman in plain clothes stopped us and asked if he could see our camera, looked through the pictures, and he wanted ahmad was paid for his kidney. To know why we were there, and he asked a lot of questions he gave the money to people smugglers to take him and im concerned that to europe, but they ripped him off. Now hes lost everything. We are being followed. Translation ijust wanted to make my family happy and my daughter, i only have one daughter, and i didnt see her for. About five or six years. I would sell my heart, my eyes anything to make but despite this attention, we m m happy. Eventually make a breakthrough. A former organ trafficker has agreed to talk about the brutal trade. He says hejoined one of the gangs after selling his own kidney. Hes very nervous. Ahmad could pay the price for the rest of his life. Removing a kidney, without proper medical supervision, can have translation i met the broker and we made an agreement, then we made the medical checks. Serious implications. Everything stops. When theres a bang on the door. Its a very, what was that . Very Risky Business. Whether that risk is short term or whether that risk is long term, its a very, very Risky Business and you really are gambling with your life. You could die in the we hide our cameras. Short term, or you could die many years later, but the important thing is that that act of donation may have taken life years away from that individual and we simply just its a neighbour wondering dont know how many years what were up to. Of life are taken away we send them away but the former trafficker is spooked. He says his job was to find people willing to sell from some of these individuals. Their kidneys before there are five million migrants and refugees in egypt. Most are not allowed to work passing them up the chain. So theyre vulnerable to the organ traffickers. I think its very hard for people in the uk often translation i bring to imagine the desperation the donors, take them that some people to the broker, particularly in countries in war zones, for example, they make the deal. Or in countries where theres serious famine then what does this broker do . Theres nothing really that weve experienced on those levels, so we dont really know the, um. Translation he takes him its very hard for us sometimes to actually understand why these individuals have been literally forced to make these to a flat, takes him choices that we find to the hospital. They keep your passport. Very hard to imagine. The next day they take the sale of human organs them for medical checks, is banned in egypt and many check your blood group, other countries, but illegal do an ultrasound and many other checks. Transplants still take place in hospitals and clinics around the world. Victims are sometimes tricked these may take around a week. During this week, they take into having a kidney removed. Them to the ministry of health to sign a document as an organ donor, then they take that consent and take them to the they get promises that they will recover fast. In some cases, the victims are convinced by the traffickers hospital with the recipient. That their kidneys will grow again. They are deceived with these promises, attracted by some amount of money. We cant verify what hes told us. And then they are left dying, of course, after the. But the involvement of corrupt officials and doctors has been the transplant, or their health corroborated in dozens of our experts previous interviews. So, the broker pays a bribe to a select member of the Egyptian Ministry of health to approve the paperwork without asking will be damaged for life. Too many questions. The consent forms, theyre a legal document, a statement explaining that the donation is altruistic, that its free of financial gain, that there is no commercial transaction, and that the donor is giving his free or her free and informed consent. Its hard to get to the victims. They could be arrested just for talking about their role in illegal operations. We are using safe houses and protecting their identities. But any of the people ive some never get the money spoke to whove sold a kidney theyve simply signed the form, or used a fingerprint. They havent read the form. Theyre promised. Others have organs removed against their will. Asha wanted to get to the Egyptian Government says europe with her children and her sisters family. A people smuggler agreed to do its won praise and approval it and said she could pay him internationally for its back when she was there. Strategy to eliminate this heinous crime. Its made arrests and says the illegal operations happen in clinics or private hospitals but not government hospitals. Translation he told me, its so easy. Theres no proof of you can work and pay the involvement of any me the money back. Government official. We didnt have any money. He said hed do everything for us. He took me to alexandria. Me and my sister, with her we need to get to one of the gang leaders but its getting harder to film in cairo. Weve been repeatedly daughters and her husband. Stopped and checked by the plain clothes police. Now one of them seems to be taking a particular interest. Yesterday when we came back to the hotel the Police Officer who stopped us was here, and during the day when we were they were told the boat to europe was leaving the next walking, looking for a location to film, we were followed day, but that never happened. For maybe two or three hours asha thinks she was drugged. When she woke up, her kidney had been removed. Its time to move. Translation i found myself in a room, with blood everywhere. The door was locked everywhere we go theres eyes and i started kicking it. On us, its very difficult then i called the police to operate, very difficult to move. And they came and got me. If you stay in one place too they took me to the hospital. There, they told me my kidney long, every move we make is under surveillance. Had been removed and they put a bandage on it. I couldnt sleep. The wound was still open, so there in the hospital, 00 09 28,871 4294966103 13 29,430 they stitched it properly. The team keep changing hotels. Then we make another breakthrough. We make contact with a leading member of one of the criminal gangs. Sean has never spoken to someone that high up before. Its risky but we send him the details of a safe location to meet. Brokers they work in a network, theres different roles. When we say brokers, were really talking about a network. Theres not one person in particular in charge. Usually theres someone who will recruit people. So it could be someone from sudan who recruits migrants from sudan. For them its not necessarily a full time job. The other brokers who have established connections with the labs and the doctors, for them this is a big business. Eventually, we get a message. Hes on his way. Its a nervous moment. Hes much more deeply involved than anyone weve talked to before. We need to be careful we dont know who he is and what hes capable of. I dont think hes going to agree to talk in front of cameras, but we can try. But when the broker arrives, he agrees to be interviewed. He says his gang alone is arranging 20 to 30 illegal transplants a week. Translation ive been involved in the organ trade since 2003. All nationalities buy from cairo, because its available. Is there a lot of hospitals involved . Translation yes, a lot. Public and private. Are there a lot of people selling their kidneys at the moment . Translation yes, but its busiest in the summer, because kidney patients get sicker, they drink a lot of water because of the hot weather. We have a lot of work during that period from all over the world. And the people who dont get paid what theyre promised, how do you feel about that . Translation i give them their money. Other people agree a price, but never pay up after the surgery. Does this happen often . Translation about 40 of the cases. So he says almost half of victims never get paid. The broker then reveals something that suggests the trade is even more corrupt than we thought. A charity has been helping the gang to find victims. Translation we deal in sudan with a specific organisation, but i cant talk about it. So ngos are involved in this business . Translation yes. Its a sudanese organisation. The broker refuses to tell us any more. And he insists on checking our recording. Translation im going to check that camera and if something isnt right, i will delete everything on it. The broker has confirmed that corrupt doctors and officials are involved in the illegal organ trade. And what we found is that the corruption and false paperwork can be used to keep victims quiet. Even when they dont get paid. Another scar, another victim. Hiba was persuaded to sell a kidney to pay for her wedding. Translation i found myself in the room after the surgery, i woke up screaming. My wound was so big, i didnt know it would be on my back, i thought it would be on my belly. I got so scared, i was screaming, this is wrong you cheated me. When the organ traffickers didnt pay her, hiba threatened to report everyone involved. Translation people called the doctor and told him theres a patient you did surgery on and she wasnt paid. He took the documents i signed to a lawyer, so if i tell the police, they can prove i donated my kidney voluntarily. The paperwork was used to prevent hiba from reporting what had happened. The consent form says she agreed to donate her kidney for free. Anything else is illegal. Translation i was going to the police station, but people told me that if i report them, the police may arrest me as well. The Egyptian Government denies hiba would have been arrested. It says, victims have the right to report these gangs without fear, on its hotlines. And it has increased the maximum punishment for organised criminal gangs to life imprisonment. But criminals are still making millions of dollars from black market transplants. And its individual lives that are broken. Translation i made this mistake and i dont want another girl to make it. So my advice to anybody who wants to donate, dont donate for money. Its time for our team to get out of egypt. But thats not so easy for those caught up in the organ trade. Tonight in cairo the latest victims are preparing to go under the knife. Selling their own body parts. Human beings butchered for profit. This is bbc news welcome if youre watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. Im mike embley. Our top stories history at the white house as israel signs a peace deal with two arab countries. These agreements prove that the nations of the region are breaking free from the failed approaches of the past. Todays signing sets history on new course. Coronavirus in india pass 5 million. Humanity at a crossroads,