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Nigerian Crime Syndicates Worldwide #937269
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“Nigerian criminals are the only international gangs who are able to make agreements with everybody, from the Italian mafia to Latin America’s cartels. It’s a characteristic that has won them the business of drug smuggling between Africa and Europe,” a recent report by Italy’s anti-mafia agency said.

The story is the same in the United Kingdom, where Nigerian criminal gangs specialised in drug trafficking and complex frauds costing the system at least £600m annually, are said to be dominating proceedings in this regard. Following the rise of these gangs, British and the US agencies gave a recent warning that “Nigerian gangs’ operations could soon lead to armed violence and outgrow established cartels from Colombia, Turkey, and Italy.”

The threat of Nigerian drug and cult gangs have grown so fierce in recent years that law enforcement agencies in the UK have established special units dedicated to tackling the growing menace.

“You won’t find Nigerians standing on a street corner selling drugs,” spokesperson for one of the agencies, NCIS, said. “They are strictly the middlemen. They survive because they work alongside other gangs. They have their finger in every organised crime pie. They have strong links with everyone from the Colombian cartels to the Turkish mafia. They have a reputation as reliable and trustworthy.

“The syndicates make use of hundreds of well-established Nigerian communities around the world as a cover for their activities. Tens of thousands of Nigerians can be found in the most unlikely locations — 50,000 live in São Paulo, Brazil, 25,000 in Bangkok, Thailand, and 500,000 in South Africa, where they dominate the crack trade,” the agency said.

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You seem to know a lot about them I don’t.

But I know a little about their soccer players. I had three of them from their Olympic team on my under 19 team the Brooklyn Italians. That we took to the Dallas cup years ago team.

Paul Gardener from Soccer America called our team the most skillful team in the United States that year. We did not win it our only loss came to the team that won it from Argentina that year.

I got them from the central Brooklyn league that is where I found them. They were very well educated and very friendly.


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I keep telling that. Nigerian groups are probably the strongest black groups in the world. They are in many cities and countries. They are present in the US (mainly Houston, New York). They are in present in asia, many countries in south east asia, in japan (where they made a pact with some Yakuza clans), in India (in the state ou Goa) where they are rivals of the russian and israeli mobs. We also knows they are in Europe, countries like the UK, Italy, Spain, Netherlands and probably others. Nigerian groups are also present in Brazil.

You can also found a small presence in countries like Canada.

Nigerian groups can be found in many african countries. They control many routes of the drug trade in south africa and western africa.
They do many crimes, drug trade, extortion, prostitution, scams, oil crime and others.

The strongest groups are probably the black axe and supreme eiye.

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yes, nigerian mafia (black axe and eye) is sure the strongest black criminal group in the world, and among the strongest criminal goups worldwide
they probably are also in france, paris and some other cities

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I'm actually quite baffled and interested in how they became such a major player in Goa's drug trade when there's an Russian (ish) & Israeli syndicates in play as well.


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I’m trying to figure out, how is the structure of those groups. In a same nigerian organization , you have those in drug trafficking, prostitution and others.
I’ve read somewhere that the leaders are in Nigeria. After you got a person that represent the organization in each country. One person for every cities and so on.

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Nigerian and haitian groups are the two groups that i’m trying to figure out, how they work.

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I remember seeing some type of documentary talking about how corrupt the country is.

You add that to the drug smuggling routes they already had access to, the fact that they are able to steal from the states oil production company and the $ they make from the 419 scam calling/emailing gullible (and greedy) Americans has made them powerful.

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They practise Voodoo.


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They practice Vodun. Like other organization do with there religion or spirituality.
The Cosa Nostra burn the picture of some saints.
The yakuza and triads also have many rituals. Some more obsucre than others.

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Stregheria as a big place in Italian history

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Yeah, but they also use it to keep the prostitutes under their control.


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I’ve read somewhere that the leaders are in Nigeria. After you got a person that represent the organization in each country. One person for every cities and so on.

according to italian police, for example, the boss of black axe in italy was in padua (northern italy) and he commanded other crews in other parts of italy, so the nigerian mafia seems to be hierarchical like the italian mafia and with rituals, in fact police said it's the most similar to italian mafia even more than other foreign criminal groups

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Originally Posted by Blackmobs
Nigerian and haitian groups are the two groups that i’m trying to figure out, how they work.


You already have an idea of Nigerian Syndicates somewhat, but Haitian organized crime tends to be more local based crews/networks.


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Well it depends. Im not talking about groups like Zoe Pound. But more about groups in Haiti. Haiti is divided by families or groups. You got those in the North(Gonaives and the Cap). In the South you got Port au Prince, jacmel and les cayes.
Each cities have a group who control everything. Most of those groups are the ones that the DEA is after.

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Originally Posted by Blackmobs
Well it depends. Im not talking about groups like Zoe Pound. But more about groups in Haiti. Haiti is divided by families or groups. You got those in the North(Gonaives and the Cap). In the South you got Port au Prince, jacmel and les cayes.
Each cities have a group who control everything. Most of those groups are the ones that the DEA is after.



Everything is run by the wealthy that live in Petion-ville.

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Originally Posted by Blackmobs
Well it depends. Im not talking about groups like Zoe Pound. But more about groups in Haiti. Haiti is divided by families or groups. You got those in the North(Gonaives and the Cap). In the South you got Port au Prince, jacmel and les cayes.
Each cities have a group who control everything. Most of those groups are the ones that the DEA is after.


That's what im speaking about and from a few reports from InsightCrime, UNODC, & local profile. Not many are involved in Transnational Organized Crime and most are localized networks.


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there are no nigerian crime syndicates or organizations. nigerians are a nomadic people. it's against their nature to form a mafia.there's know such thing as nigerian organized crime.they are knot going to organize or cooperate in a group.nigerian criminals are moar likely to be scammers,or work indepdently

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Nigerian Migrants Wage Gang Wars with Axes and Machetes, Turn Italian Town into Battleground

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Originally Posted by BlackFamily
Originally Posted by Blackmobs
Nigerian and haitian groups are the two groups that i’m trying to figure out, how they work.


You already have an idea of Nigerian Syndicates somewhat, but Haitian organized crime tends to be more local based crews/networks.

BF do you know if they are they working with different crews within their syndicate ?
Do they have administration ?

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Like americafyeah I'm still kinda doubtful about something like a real "Nigerian mafia" existing. Everything I read about them leaves me the impression that they're more independent small crews of drug smugglers and fraudsters that generally speaking (exceptions exist of course) have little interest in territory. The gangs they're speaking of in Italy are nothing but petty goons. In general, I feel it's hype more than anything else.

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Originally Posted by MeyerLansky
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Originally Posted by Blackmobs
Nigerian and haitian groups are the two groups that i’m trying to figure out, how they work.


You already have an idea of Nigerian Syndicates somewhat, but Haitian organized crime tends to be more local based crews/networks.

BF do you know if they are they working with different crews within their syndicate ?
Do they have administration ?


Who are you referring to?


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Originally Posted by TheKillingJoke
Like americafyeah I'm still kinda doubtful about something like a real "Nigerian mafia" existing. Everything I read about them leaves me the impression that they're more independent small crews of drug smugglers and fraudsters that generally speaking (exceptions exist of course) have little interest in territory. The gangs they're speaking of in Italy are nothing but petty goons. In general, I feel it's hype more than anything else.


Anything that americafyeah speaks on in regards to Nigerian OC should be taken with a grain of salt. Remember this the same character making threads about gangs don't exist anymore in L.A & Chicago. rolleyes

That's the general structure that I spoke about many times. It's an ad-hoc or horizontal network which is flexible and adaptable to it's environment. There are de facto supervisors that organized a crew ( generally along ethnic/tribal/famaly lines) to engage in racketeering activities. Afterwards they disperse and re emerged later elsewhere. Yet you have some syndicates with a basic 3 tier structure to facilitate other activities. The grand picture is a global traders and merchant type structure with racketeers linking with each other from different countries.
A hierarchical structure with layers of insulation isn't necessary for Nigerian/West African OC nor does that type of structure always defines a group to be a " mafia".


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Originally Posted by BlackFamily
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Like americafyeah I'm still kinda doubtful about something like a real "Nigerian mafia" existing. Everything I read about them leaves me the impression that they're more independent small crews of drug smugglers and fraudsters that generally speaking (exceptions exist of course) have little interest in territory. The gangs they're speaking of in Italy are nothing but petty goons. In general, I feel it's hype more than anything else.


Anything that americafyeah speaks on in regards to Nigerian OC should be taken with a grain of salt. Remember this the same character making threads about gangs don't exist anymore in L.A & Chicago. rolleyes

That's the general structure that I spoke about many times. It's an ad-hoc or horizontal network which is flexible and adaptable to it's environment. There are de facto supervisors that organized a crew ( generally along ethnic/tribal/famaly lines) to engage in racketeering activities. Afterwards they disperse and re emerged later elsewhere. Yet you have some syndicates with a basic 3 tier structure to facilitate other activities. The grand picture is a global traders and merchant type structure with racketeers linking with each other from different countries.
A hierarchical structure with layers of insulation isn't necessary for Nigerian/West African OC nor does that type of structure always defines a group to be a " mafia".


Yeah I think your description fits the Nigerian OC activities. I think it's definitely organized crime, but it's way more atypical OC than we're used seeing from various mafia/mob groups, crime families or even street/prison/biker gangs.

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Originally Posted by BlackFamily
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Originally Posted by Blackmobs
Nigerian and haitian groups are the two groups that i’m trying to figure out, how they work.


You already have an idea of Nigerian Syndicates somewhat, but Haitian organized crime tends to be more local based crews/networks.

BF do you know if they are they working with different crews within their syndicate ?
Do they have administration ?


Who are you referring to?

The Nigerian ‏syndicates

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Originally Posted by TheKillingJoke
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Like americafyeah I'm still kinda doubtful about something like a real "Nigerian mafia" existing. Everything I read about them leaves me the impression that they're more independent small crews of drug smugglers and fraudsters that generally speaking (exceptions exist of course) have little interest in territory. The gangs they're speaking of in Italy are nothing but petty goons. In general, I feel it's hype more than anything else.


Anything that americafyeah speaks on in regards to Nigerian OC should be taken with a grain of salt. Remember this the same character making threads about gangs don't exist anymore in L.A & Chicago. rolleyes

That's the general structure that I spoke about many times. It's an ad-hoc or horizontal network which is flexible and adaptable to it's environment. There are de facto supervisors that organized a crew ( generally along ethnic/tribal/famaly lines) to engage in racketeering activities. Afterwards they disperse and re emerged later elsewhere. Yet you have some syndicates with a basic 3 tier structure to facilitate other activities. The grand picture is a global traders and merchant type structure with racketeers linking with each other from different countries.
A hierarchical structure with layers of insulation isn't necessary for Nigerian/West African OC nor does that type of structure always defines a group to be a " mafia".


Yeah I think your description fits the Nigerian OC activities. I think it's definitely organized crime, but it's way more atypical OC than we're used seeing from various mafia/mob groups, crime families or even street/prison/biker gangs.


I would say it's not too atypical per say since some Russian OC networks function in a similar fashion.


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BF do you know if they are they working with different crews within their syndicate ?
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The Nigerian ‏syndicates[/quote]

Oh. I answered it in a previous convo with KillingJoke.


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https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2017-05-16-migration-of-the-nigerian-mafia

Since the 1980s, Nigerian organised crime has migrated around the world. They established strong roots in Italy and, from the 1990s, in parts of South Africa. Valentina Pancieri, postgraduate researcher and police officer on sabbatical, is investigating the motivations for migration of Nigerian organised crime into these two nations.

Throughout history, there have been factors that force or motivate criminal organisations to move. These range from new opportunities and competition to the threat of law enforcement.

The birth and initial migration of Nigerian organised crime are closely linked to three historical events, says Pancieri, who is in her second year of PhD research in the Institute for Safety Governance and Criminology.

The first is the discovery of oil in the 1950s that resulted in a surge of wealth and accompanying corruption. The second is the economic depression in the 1980s and the third, widespread corruption. These three events meant many skilled Nigerians migrated in search of employment opportunities.

As legal operations moved along with ordinary immigrants, so organised crime moved with its role-players.

“It is very important to note that not all Nigerian immigrants are involved in crime,” says Pancieri. “Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa so it has a greater chance of having a higher number of people involved in criminal activities.”

Those Nigerian criminals were quick to learn from their counterparts in the host nation, modernising operations and building on existing networks.

Many unemployed graduates with good IT skills took advantage of the information boom in the 1990s, and became leading players in cybercrime as the notorious ‘419ers’.

So began Nigerian transnational crime.

From organised crime to Italian mafiosi

In Italy, Nigerian criminal groups are allegedly establishing successful partnerships with native mafia families. They are thought to be adopting the structure and operational methods of the families, using intimidation to run their businesses and seeking to govern both legal and illicit enterprises through criminal protection.

Nigerian criminal groups have been so successful in mimicking the notorious families that Italian police started addressing them as ‘mafia’.

Pancieri agrees with her native police force, saying that they tick many of the boxes for organised crime: an active structure, sustained international partnerships and a well-planned criminal strategy.

The move to South Africa

Another country in which Nigerian mafia became established was South Africa.

“Crime moves when there are push and pull factors in place,” says Pancieri.

In addition to the ‘forced migration’ of Nigerian political and economic instability, Pancieri lists new or booming markets and a demand for mafia services as motivations to move.

The arrival of a large number of Nigerian immigrants to South Africa began in the mid-1990s as the country was undergoing its transition from apartheid to democracy. With their home country in turmoil, South Africa proved easy to enter due to Nigeria’s contribution to the liberation struggle.

New markets and a demand for mafia services

In Italy, the families had satisfied the demand for many illegal services, but Nigerian organised crime established themselves through the demand for Nigerian prostitutes. In South Africa, Nigerian syndicates first established themselves in Johannesburg in the late 1990s. As a virgin territory for organised crime, it was well suited to establish a new criminal venture, bringing in cocaine and crack.

In that period, nightclubs started hiring Nigerian bouncers as security, replacing white ones who were more prone to violence and attracted unwanted police attention. This acted as a marketing asset for the Nigerians involved in drugs, who could enlarge their market through selling in clubs.

While Nigerians never controlled the security industry, through their established South American contacts, they began importing cocaine, which is not produced in South Africa and for which local criminals had very few contacts.

Nigerians soon established themselves as controllers of the cocaine and crack supply chain.

To this day, cocaine is still not available in large quantities on the South African market and Johannesburg remains the headquarters for Nigerian illicit activities in South Africa.

Friends and family

In addition to markets and demands, “ethnic ties are very important to the way crime moves”, says Pancieri.

According to her research, Nigerian mafia will, prior to establishing themselves in the host country, seek out and join those with a shared background.

“You want to do business – legal and illegal – with people from your culture and language,” she says.

Territory

The presence of established criminal organisations serves as a deterrent for Nigerian mafia. In Cape Town, gangs control the Cape Flats, feeding its supply of cheaper, more addictive drugs –predominantly to impoverished communities.

“You won’t find Nigerian syndicates selling drugs on the Cape Flats,” says Pancieri. “Nigerian criminals do not appear to want to fight.”

How to curb Nigerian mafia
Instead, when they first arrived in Cape Town, Nigerians set up shops in the affluent and relatively gang-free Sea Point to expand their business into the drug trade and sex trafficking.

But they did not stay there. Through collaboration between police, law enforcement and the local neighbourhood watch, Nigerian syndicates were pushed out of Sea Point, forcing them to find a new stronghold in the city’s northern suburbs.

The Sea Point case demonstrated South African police’s ability to break organised crime.

“But it is not an easy structure to eradicate,” says Pancieri. “You need to be trained, equipped and conducting wiretapping investigations. You need to be monitoring people.”

Pancieri, who is a police officer herself, stresses the need for dedication and patience. “You need to understand who does what, how they enter the country and what motivates them to come,” she says.

Pancieri hopes that the understanding that results from her research will strengthen transnational police operations in their fight against Nigerian crime, and enable judiciary systems and social support agencies in their work with criminals, criminal networks and victims.

“Until something related to police intelligence work is done, Nigerian criminal syndicates will always be successful,” she says

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Blitz of the Italian, French and German police Nigerian Mafia, ten fugitives arrested in France and Germany Contested the mafia association: according to surveys the network used the Cara di Mineo, in Sicily, as a base
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Italian, French and German police joint operation. A dozen Nigerian citizens, all fugitives in Italy and considered members of a criminal organization that for some time operated in Sicily, were arrested in France and Germany. Contested the mafia association: according to surveys the network used the Cara di Mineo, in Sicily, as a base "A dozen Nigerian fugitives were arrested in France and Germany by the State Police, in collaboration with the French and German authorities. They were wanted on charges of mafia association, sexual violence, drug trafficking. They worked in Catania and, according to the accusations, they had the operative base in the Cara of Mineo that we are now progressively emptying. Thanks to investigators and law enforcement, no tolerance for mafiosi and delinquents, "says Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. They are all recipients of a European arrest warrant in relation to the order of application of a precautionary measure in prison issued against them on January 26th by the magistrate of the Court of Catania because they are held liable, in various capacities, for a mafia-type association, a finalized association to illicit drug trafficking, sexual violence and group sexual violence. Those arrested are considered members of a cultist Nigerian transnational criminal organization called "Vikings" or "Supreme Vikings Confraternity", also known as "Norsemen of Nigeria", part of a wider association rooted in Nigeria and widespread in several European states and non-European, characterized by the presence of an organizational structure of a hierarchical nature, of organs delegated to the coordination of the various groups spread in the territory of the Italian state and to the control of compliance with internal rules, as well as the presence of roles and positions having specific powers within of the associative structure. - See more at: http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/ar...aa4c9cf-2470-40c0-84f4-8dc3c729b835.html


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