On Friday, Ike Ekweremadu was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for being the driving force in a plot to harvest a kidney for his sick daughter in the first organ trafficking conviction under the Modern Slavery Act. He said the trafficking conspiracy showed what could happen if such documented suspicions about corruption were ignored. “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. But in that period he bought three properties – two in London and one in Cambridge – worth £4.2m. The Old Bailey heard that Ekweremadu had an international property portfolio worth more than £6mhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/07/uk-urged-investigate-nigerian-politician-organ-trafficking-plot-ike-ekweremadu

Source: The Guardian May 08, 2023 09:26 UTC