Nigerian senator and family on trial in UK over organ harvesting plot

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A wealthy Nigerian politician and his family plotted to bring a street trader from Nigeria to Britain and pay him a few thousand pounds to donate his kidney for a transplant for his ill daughter, a British prosecutor told a London court on Monday.

Donating a kidney is not unlawful in Britain but it is a criminal offence to offer a reward, regardless of whether the donor is complicit.

Davies said the proposed donor, who was about 21 and cannot be named for legal reasons, was recruited in Lagos where he worked in markets selling telephone parts from a cart. "None of this would have been necessary if this was a straightforward, genuine, lawful, altruistic kidney donation," Davies said. "It was not. The alleged conspirators knew it was not, what they agreed to was not. It was criminal."

 

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