A United Kingdom court on Thursday ruled that a former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice Ekwerenmadu, are guilty of organ trafficking.
The court also declared that the embattled lawmaker’s daughter, Sonia Ekwerenmadu, and a medical doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta, were also guilty.
After a six-week trial at the Old Bailey, the jury ruled that they conspired to bring a 21-year-old street trader to London to exploit him for his kidney.
The judge, Justice Jeremy Johnson, will pass a sentence at a later date, The Guardian UK reports.
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The victim was brought to the UK last year to provide a kidney to Sonia in an £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Ekweremadu, a Nigerian politician, promised the victim up to £7,000 and a better life if he travelled to the UK to donate his kidney to his 25-year-old daughter, Sonia, in a private transplant operation.
Jurors heard that Sonia was to have been the recipient of the victim’s kidney in an £80,000 private transplant operation at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London.
As part of the alleged plot, “elaborate” steps were taken to create the false impression that Sonia and her proposed donor were cousins.
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