The prosecution blocked several banking transactions between two companies offering medical tourism. The owner of one of them, Israeli citizen Boris Wolfgang, has been charged with organ trafficking in several countries around the world. He owns two companies in Albania and has financial relations with another company that has activity among others and organ transplant.
An Israeli citizen, part of an international network, charged with organ trafficking in several countries around the world, is suspected of investing his money in Albania. The alert was provided by the prosecution, which through the Anti-Money Laundering Directorate could have blocked some transfers between two companies operating in Albania. At the center of the investigation is a company with partner and administrator of a foreign citizen, who in the focus of his activity has medical tourism.
But according to the prosecution, citizen Robert Shpolinske has received some money from a suspected and charged organ for organ trafficking in several countries around the world. He is Boris Wolfman, born in Ukraine and with an Israeli passport, charged as part of a network that trafficked organs from Costa Rica, even in Kosovo, according to a New York Times article. An Eulex report shows the functioning of the organ trafficking scheme involving some doctors, even those who are considered Israeli chief Boris Wolfmann. Volfman himself arrested in Turkey in 2015 after being a sought-after person by Israeli authorities, has been established by two companies in Albania, one of which deals with medical tourism, including organ transplants.
Transactions between Russian-owned companies Robert Shpolinske and Israeli Boris Volfman have sparked the interest of the Anti-Money Laundering Directorate, which has started tracking payments. The first doubts concern the fact that Wolfgang has had allegations of organ trafficking and money given to a Russian citizen’s business may derive from this illegal activity, although this issue is expected to be clarified by the ongoing investigation. To prevent further suspicious transactions, the prosecution demanded permission to court to seize the bank account owned by the company created by Russian citizen Robert Shpolinske. Boris Wolfmann’s wife was formerly an administrator of this company.
According to the prosecutor’s office, in September of this year a criminal proceeding was recorded following allegations of money laundering. For this reason the court allowed the seizure of the bank account of “A New Life 4U” sh.pk. with administrator and partner Robert Shpolinske, account at a second-tier bank in Albania. The prosecution says the data collected on this case creates suspicions for money laundering by the citizen Robert Shpolinske and Boris Wolfgang. From the data obtained it results that citizen Robert Shpolinske has registered in Albania on 13.11. 2014 his business activity and society “A Life News 4U” in which this citizen is administrator and her only partner. The object of the activity of this society is “medical tourism and organ transplants …”. “It turns out that this company has opened an account on 9.12. 2014 in the Lek, Euro and USD currencies in which various transactions have been conducted for various persons including Russian citizen suspected of organ trafficking Boris Wolfmann, “the prosecution said.
From the continuous monitoring of the accounts of this company results in the account of “A Life News 4U” sh.pk. a transfer amounting to US $ 40,957 has arrived with the “2001 medical service bill” from the state of Israel. “From the data obtained it results that citizen Boris Igor Wolfman is involved in illegal organ transplantation. From the verifications made this citizen has a bank account on behalf of the companies he owns in Albania, namely the companies “Justsavelife” and “AVS. Investment Group, “says the prosecution. According to the prosecutor’s office based on the involvement of citizen Robert Shpolinske in transactions with citizens who have data that they are involved in illegal activities, there are suspicions based on evidence that the movable property on his behalf, namely the amounts deposited and transferred to the accounts of the company “A News Life 4U” sh.pk are the result of this criminal activity.
Boris Wolfman, a Ukrainian citizen with Russian and Israeli citizenship, is known at least since 2008 in the organ trafficking business. It is one of the names that comes from EULEX’s investigation into a Kosovo clinic and is also mentioned in an investigation in Costa Rica, one in Turkey, Ukraine and a number of other countries. Last time, he was arrested in Turkey, where, according to some local media, he was looking for organ “donors” among Syrian refugees. Wolfman himself, according to an article published in 2014 in the New York Times, donated a young kidney to Colombia. The American newspaper that contacted then says Wolfman was “defended” by Avigad Sandler, one of the Israelis involved in organ trafficking, for which some people were arrested and convicted in Kosovo.
Wolfman, accused of organ trafficking from Kosovo in Costa Rica
Wolfman seems to have been detached from Sandler after both were arrested for a few weeks on these charges and now has a company of his own, whose branch appears to be open in Albania where he is in partnership with a number of foreign businessmen and Albanian. The company that is open in Albania has the same name as the website that Wolfgang uses. “Justsavelives.com” advertise that it deals exclusively with help for patients in need of organ transplants, and is also focused on finding donors. Wolfman in the interview with NY Times says his company’s job is to provide the patient’s needed assistance in the transplant process, but it has nothing to do with the body or the hospital section that says the clients are the ones who solve it.
But Ny Times had evidence of his engagement in the “medical tourism” activity and the movement of patients for large sums in search of donors. In 2007, according to the newspaper, he was arrested and sentenced to two months in prison for abducting a man who had been forced to enter hospital records to get the database of patients looking for a kidney. He has admitted to the newspaper that he had assisted in 15 transplants since the beginning of 2014 when he created his company. The branch of this company in Albania was opened in January, while the article of the Ny Times was published in August 2014. There is no data on whether Wolfman has carried out similar activities in Albania. / Mapo
