A former US intelligence analyst warned the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) to investigate the activities of a senior Nigerian politician before he trafficked a man to London in an attempt to harvest his kidney, the Guardian can reveal. “Clearly the UK authorities had ample opportunity to scrutinise Ekweremadu’s UK activities before things reached the point of people-trafficking or organ harvesting,” he said. Page, who spent more than five years investigating senior Nigerian politicians, also said unexplained wealth had been used to pay expensive education bills for Ekweremadu’s four children. Page supplied the NCA with a dossier of information about how Ekweremadu had used unexplained wealth to fund his UK activities. Ekweremadu’s lawyer pointed out that the Nigerian high court had rejected an investigation into Ekweremadu’s wealth by country’s anti-fraud agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Source: The Guardian May 08, 2023 01:24 UTC