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British jury finds Nigerian politician guilty of organ harvesting plot

Illegal organ trade is widespread. AFP/File

A London jury has found Nigeria's former deputy Senate president guilty of plotting to harvest a street trader's kidney for his sick daughter.

Former Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and doctor Obinna Obeta, 50, were this week found guilty of conspiring to exploit a young man from Lagos for his organs in the first case of its kind under the UK’s 2015 Modern Slavery Act.

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