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| Nigerian politician and wife charged with child organ-harvesting plot | |
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| Ike Ekweremadu has been charged | |
| A top Nigerian senator and his wife have been identified as the couple charged in London with a child organ-harvesting plot. | |
| Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, both Nigerian nationals, will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court later. | |
| Mr Ekweremadu's spokesperson confirmed to BBC Igbo that the senator had been charged in the UK over the case. | |
| A child of unknown age has been taken into care. | |
| The couple have been charged with conspiring to transport a child into the UK in order to harvest organs. | |
| Mr Ekweremadu served three terms as Nigeria's deputy president of the Senate, from 2007 to 2019. | |
| The lawyer and politician has been a senator since 2003 and belongs to the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP). | |
| The investigation began when detectives were alerted to potential modern day slavery offences. | |
| Charges follow an inquiry by the Metropolitan Police's Specialist Crime Team. | |
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