Senior Nigerian politician and wife guilty of organ harvesting plot

Senior Nigerian politician and wife guilty of organ harvesting plot

Members of the Ekweremadu family were on trial at the Old Bailey in London (PA)

A wealthy Nigerian politician has been found guilty of an organ-harvesting plot involving a UK hospital in a legal first of its kind.

Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60; his wife Beatrice, 56;  and medical “middleman” Dr Obinna Obeta, 50; were found guilty at the Old Bailey of conspiring to arrange the travel of a young man with a view to exploiting him for his body part.

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