Court records have shown that a top Israeli military officer and four others were charged with 10 counts pertaining to organ trafficking.

Ynet News reported on Thursday that Brigadier-General Meir Zamir, 62, of Rishon Lezion, is suspected of leading a group of organ traffickers that included brother Michael and Yaakov Golub, ages 40 and 34, Netanel Moyal, 34, and Shlomi Biton, 31.

Ynet further reported that Zamir and his associates are accused of harvesting organs and paying the donors tens of thousands of dollars while they charged approximately $100,000 from buyers in need of an organ transplant.

It was further reported that the group is also accused of creating false documentation that indicated those who sold their organs consented to a free-will donation and received no monetary compensation, the indictment indicated.

Attorney Bassem Kandalaft, of the Northern District Prosecution, wrote in the indictment, "The defendants operated in an organized, systematic and ongoing manner, and traded in human beings like they were objects being passed from hand to hand, for the sake of harvesting their kidneys." (With Inputs from Agencies)