Wasim Akram, the alleged mastermind of the nationwide kidney racket, was reportedly a rickshaw driver in 2009 in Mumbai. Today, the native of Kothi, a remote village in Bihar’s Gaya district, owns a fleet of high-end vehicles and a travel firm where money is laundered, according to insiders. Local sources in Imamganj block said that Akram, in his late 30s, is popularly known as Raju Bhai in Kothi, where his joint family lives in a four-storey bungalow with at least two dozen rooms.

An illegal donor told mid-day that Akram keeps bragging about his massive network. Sources close to Akram told mid-day that he had married a bar dancer after ditching his first wife with whom he has three children. He has a three-year-old son with his second wife, who reportedly lives at a recently purchased flat in Delhi where Akram frequently visits her.