Israeli Doctors Attempting To Leave Romania On Tue Had No Work License – Prosecutors

On Tuesday, professor Nathan Levitt and doctor Genya Ziskind, were caught attempting to leave Romania and avoid investigation, and were taken to the Bucharest Court on Wednesday.

They are accused of being part of an organized crime group, of human eggs trafficking and working without license, the Organized Crime Department said on Wednesday.

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Investigators said they were working in Romania without license, sanitary authorization and without the approval of the Doctors College.

“Without their involvement in finding clients for in-vitro fertilization, the traffic (the buying/ selling) of human egg cells organized in Romania by the three for which preventive arrest warrants have been issued would not have had the pursued finality, that of obtaining material gains,”  the prosecutors said.

According to prosecutors, the two participated in the activity of the organized crime group, “on the external segment”, by making recommendations to beneficiaries (Israeli women) to resort to the services of Sabyc clinic for in-vitro fertilization.

The doctors allegedly received EUR4,000-EUR5,000 for each visit to Romania.

“In the past six years, the accused have been travelling together on the route Israel-Romania during weekends, each month, to work at the Sabyc clinic. Evidence shows that, during this period, their activity was not only of medical kind, as they were not only performing in-vitro fertilization, but also taking egg cells from the Romanian donors, thus coming in direct contact with the women investigated for human eggs trafficking”, prosecutors said.

Thus, prosecutors decided to replace the ban on leaving the country for the two with preventive arrest.

The Bucharest Court decided on July 20 to apply preventive arrest over a 30-day interval for the three suspects detained within the investigation targeting human eggs trafficking.

Thus, the Bucharest Court judges decided to issue preventive arrest warrants for the chief of the Sabyc clinic, Harry Mironescu, his son Yair Miron and against Cecilia Borza, under charges of conspiring to commit crimes and organizing human origin cells traffic with the purpose of obtaining material gains.