https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2019/11/11/a-tampa-fraud-cause-helped-reveal-the-black-axe-a-scheme-from-nigeria/%3foutputType=amp

The Nigerian Black Axe got a presence in Canada. They are still low profile, but they are heavily in the fraud game and car theft. Luxury cars that are stolen in many part of Canada. And with the help of street gangs and the mafia, they ship those luxury cars in Africa, from the Montreal port.

In this arricle, you can see they are also working with nigerian criminals in the US.

The Tampa case started as a tip from a law firm in Columbus, Ga. The firm lost about $96,000 through a fraud in which someone posed as a business owner seeking payment of a debt from another company. Partial payment was made in the form of a cashier’s check made out to the firm. A lawyer was then instructed to wire the funds to a Bank of America account in Tampa. Only after the money left the account did the lawyer learn the cashier’s check was fake.

FBI agents found that the bank account belonged to an associate of a Tampa man, Muhammad Naji. Naji eventually cooperated with FBI agents. He explained that he worked for a man from Canada, whom he knew only as “Melvin.”

Melvin was Ike Amadi. From his perch in Toronto, Canada, he orchestrated a network of people like Naji who are described in court records as “money mules.” Their job was to open bank accounts, often in the names of shell companies, that would store the ill-gotten monies as deposits. As soon as the money arrived, the mules would send it overseas before the theft could be discovered.

The money mules received 5 to 10 percent of the stolen funds. Amadi also got a cut. The rest went to the Black Axe.