The former deputy senate president and his wife, Beatrice, were sentenced for organ trafficking at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, United Kingdom, on March 23, 2023, with Ekweremadu receiving nine years and eight months in prison and his wife receiving four years and six months.
Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice, and Obinna Obeta, a doctor acting as the middleman, were accused of trying to persuade doctors at London’s Royal Free Hospital to conduct an £80,000 transplant on 21-year-old David Ukpo, portrayed as the cousin of their daughter, Sonia Ekweremadu.
