South Korean police round up human egg traffickers

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SEOUL (AFP) — South Korean police said they had brought charges against 25 people implicated in the selling and buying of human eggs.

Five, including a 44-year-old man only identified by his family name Lee and a hospital worker, were suspected of arranging the sale of eggs online, police said Monday.

Police accused 11 women, mostly college students and young office workers, of selling their own ova and nine women of buying the eggs for up to four million won (3,846 dollars) each.

The donors included a college student who provided her egg to a Japanese woman in Malaysia in May.

Only one of the suspects has been detained while the others have been released prior to trial.

South Korea's law allows women to donate eggs to fertility clinics or...