CAIRO: The investigations of the Egyptian public prosecution unraveled horrific details of the brutal murder of a 15-year-old boy in Qalyubia governorate in Egypt. The perpetrator allegedly lured the boy and killed him, then removed his organs and mutilated his body while filming the macabre killing and removal of organs.

Investigators of the public prosecution found the body of the boy in an apartment in Shubra Al-Khaimah, the scene of the crime. Some of his organs were extracted and placed in a bag close to the corpse. “The perpetrator of the incident was arrested, and upon interrogation he admitted to committing the crime, saying that it was done at the behest of an Egyptian resident in Kuwait, who met him through a Dark Web website used for trading in human organs,” the prosecution said.

“He asked him to select a child to remove his organs for a price of five million Egyptian pounds. After choosing the victim via a video call, he asked him to murder him before stealing his organs, adding he will be informed of the next steps once the crime is committed,” the officials said.

The statement further said: “However, the Egyptian resident in Kuwait asked the killer to kill yet another child to get the agreed amount. However, the perpetrator was arrested before the second crime and the public prosecution did not find any medical equipment to suggest that the crime was committed for organ trade.”

The public prosecution continued in its statement: “The investigations resulted in the identification of the Egyptian defendant residing in Kuwait, who used a mobile phone with a SIM card owned by his father. Based on the instructions of the attorney general’s counsel, the department of international cooperation at the attorney general’s office contacted the competent authorities in Kuwait and Interpol, which resulted in the arrest of the accused and his father, in possession of electronic devices. They were deported to Egypt subsequently so that the public prosecution could interrogate them further to verify the motives for committing the crime.”

It stated that the first defendant, who was over 15 years old, admitted that he was the one who instructed the perpetrator of the crime to commit it, as stated in his confession, with the intention of keeping the video clips of the killing of the child victim and the mutilation of his body, so that he gets the opportunity to sell and publish them through Dark Web websites that broadcast them in exchange for large sums of money. His father, who was arrested with him, however, denied any connection with the incidents. He is currently being investigated.