A former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice have been convicted of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom.
A jury found that Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56 and medical “middleman” Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, are guilty of a conspiracy to bring a young man to Britain to give his kidney
A jury, after a six-week trial, found the senator, his wife and Obeta guilty of a conspiracy to bring a young man to Britain for exploitation.
Their daughter Sonia, 25, wept as she was cleared of the same charge on Thursday.
They were said to have criminally conspired to bring the 21-year-old Lagos street trader to London to exploit him for his kidney, the jury found.
The victim, a 21-year-old street trader from Lagos, 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.
Their sentencing comes up at a later date.
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