Ike Ekweremadu, a former Deputy Senate President, and his wife, Beatrice, were found guilty of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom.
After a six-week trial at the Old Bailey, the couple, along with their daughter, Sonia, and a medical doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain with the intent of exploiting him.
The Ekweremadus’ daughter Sonia, 25, who was to receive a k!dney from the traffickn vict!m wept as she was cleared of the same charge this morning.
The victim, a 21-year-old street trader from Lagos, was brought to the UK last year to provide to Sonia in an £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, the medical “middleman”, was found guilty.
The prosecution claimed the donor was offered up to £7,000 along with the promise of a better life in the UK.
The donor did not understand until his first appointment with a consultant at the hospital that he was there for a k!dney transplant.
The judge, Justice Jeremy Johnson, will pass a sentence at a later date, The Guardian UK reports.
