Ike Ekweremadu And Wife Charged Guilty Of Organ Trafficking

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A court in the United Kingdom has found Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice,  guilty of organ trafficking.

The couple were found guilty alongside a medical doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta.

They were convicted after a six-week trial at Old Bailey for facilitating the travel of a young man to the United Kingdom with the intention to exploit him.

The victim, a street trader from Lagos, was taken to the UK last year to provide a kidney in an £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

The Former Deputy Senate President and his wife were arrested in the UK on 21 June after flying into Heathrow from Turkey.

While the lawmaker and the doctor were remanded in HMP Wandsworth and HMP Belmarsh respectively, the wife was granted bail at a hearing in July.