British police on Thursday charged a man and a woman with conspiring to bring a child to the U.K. in order to harvest organs.
London's Metropolitan Police force said Nigerian nationals Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55,
to arrange or facilitate travel of another person with a view to exploitation, "namely organ harvesting."Police said a child had been taken to safety. The force said detectives launched an investigation after they were alerted to potential modern slavery offences in May. The suspects share the names and ages of a former deputy president of the Nigerian Senate and his wife. The former deputy Senate president's office had no immediate comment.
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