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SINGAPORE (AFP) — An ailing Singapore retail magnate has received a kidney believed to have come from a convicted gangster hanged on the same day, The Straits Times reported Saturday.
Tang Wee Sung, whose Tangs department store sits in the prime Orchard Road tourist and shopping belt, was recuperating after a transplant operation Friday morning, the report said.
After a check with the city's hospitals, the newspaper said it believed the kidney came from Tan Chor Jin, a former triad leader who was sent to the gallows at Changi Prison early Friday for the gangland-style shooting of a nightclub owner in 2006.
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