Doctor accused of organ trafficking posed as cousin of donor, UK court told

Obinna Obeta's successful transplant allegedly then inspired plot to bring man from Nigeria to donate a kidney

A doctor accused of organ trafficking was previously able to persuade an NHS hospital and the transplant regulator that he was the cousin of a man who donated him a kidney in an operation in 2021, the Old Bailey has heard.

After this was successful, he trafficked a Lagos street trader to the UK in an attempt to transplant his kidney to the daughter of a powerful Nigerian politician at the same hospital, the Royal Free in London.