Nigerian politician found guilty in UK organ harvesting plot

By SYLVIA HUI
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — A senior Nigerian politician and his wife have been found guilty of conspiring to transport a street trader to the U.K. as part of an organ-harvesting plot. They were accused of arranging the travel of a 21-year-old man to the U.K. with a view to exploiting him for a kidney donation. Prosecutors said the politician and his wife arranged for the victim to provide a kidney to their 25-year-old daughter in a transplant operation at a London hospital. The operation didn’t go ahead. Kidney donations are lawful in the U.K. but it is a criminal offense to reward someone for doing so. The couple were convicted on Thursday and will be sentenced on May 5.