A senior Nigerian politician, his wife and a “middleman” have been jailed for conspiring to traffic a young man to the UK to harvest his kidney. Anja_Popp reports.
A senior Nigerian politician and his wife have been jailed by a London court – for conspiring to traffic a young man to the UK to harvest his kidney.
In the first case of its kind, former senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice were found guilty of bringing over a 21 year old market trader from Lagos so that they could use his kidney for their sick daughter.
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