Editor 's note : Since the FBI arrested a Brooklyn businessman in late July on federal charges of organ trafficking , CNN has been conducting a worldwide investigation into the sale of kidneys , using willing donors and willing recipients from China to Israel to the United States . This installment examines two very different stories of Israelis involved in the trade . Yechezekel Nagauker in a Chinese hospital where he got a kidney transplant after paying $ 100,000 . TEL AVIV , Israel ( CNN ) -- In a dank Tel Aviv hospital room , you can see at a glance just how desperate some Israelis are for a new kidney . In one bed , Ricki Shai 's mother lies practically unresponsive . Her diabetes is slowly killing her . It has forced the amputation of both of her legs . Sitting in a bed beside her is Shai 's father , Yechezekel Nagauker , also a diabetic . But he decided , his daughter says , not to wait for a kidney donor . `` My father did n't want to be like my mother , '' Shai said . In April , Nagauker cut a deal with a kidney broker , who promised him a new life and a new kidney for $ 100,000 . It was available only in China , the donor said . `` The broker went to him and suggested that he become a new man . 'Come with me . Two days , $ 100,000 , and two days you will be a new man , ' `` Shai said . Today , Shai calls the broker `` the killer . '' Nagauker 's body is rejecting the new kidney . The family 's story is one of several that have come to light in recent weeks as part of a worldwide CNN investigation into what appears to be a widespread black market in human organs , a network now being probed by authorities in Israel and the United States . Nagauker went to China , where his daughter said he was taken to a rural hospital and given the kidney of an 18-year-old Chinese girl . Shai captured images on her cell phone of her father in what she described as a filthy hospital . The surgery went poorly , and the girl who donated the kidney died shortly after surgery , Shai said . `` They gave her $ 5,000 , and she died , '' she said . The broker has yet to face any sanctions . Until just last year , the entire transaction was not only legal in Israel ; some state-sponsored health insurance plans paid for transplants . Before March 2008 , Israeli law allowed citizens to go abroad for live organ transplants from non-related donors . Israeli investigators are looking intensively at illegal organ trafficking under the new law , the country 's Health Ministry said . Nancy Scheper-Hughes , who studies the organ trade , says Israel has become ground zero for both legal and illegal transactions . For years , she said , the very first treatment for anyone with kidney disease in Israel has been to find a new kidney rather than linger on official lists waiting for one . `` There 's a belief , of course , that not only is transplant better than dialysis , but you want a living donor , because it 's better than a kidney that was on ice or that was under a truck , '' said Scheper-Hughes , an anthropologist at the University of California at Berkeley and founder of the newsletter Organs Watch . `` Michael , '' a broker who insists that he operates legally but still wanted to keep his name and face a secret , said Israelis do not like to weaken their own . His mother , he said , needed a kidney and happily agreed to buy one in China rather than receiving a transplant from her own son . Watch `` Michael '' on how he brokers kidney transplants » . The broker said he has arranged nearly 220 transplants . It has been relatively uncomplicated , he said . Israel 's 2008 law banning the strict brokering of kidneys for cash has made things trickier , Michael says . But if a patient arrives at his door with a donor claiming to be a relative , he can easily send them overseas with no questions asked . But are they really relatives ? `` I do n't know , '' the broker said . `` I do n't care . I do n't deal with that . '' For her part , Shai says her family is `` breaking . '' But she has no doubt that the organ broker her family used is still in business . `` We are paying the price , '' she said .
Israeli government paid $ 500 to Israel to get new body . His body is rejecting transplant he received from 18 year - old in China . CNN investigating what appears to be widespread black market in human remains .