BF,

I don't know much about criminal organizations, but I'd think that one advantage that the Nigerian syndicate has is one of the advantages that the Russian mafia has. I think the Russian mafia is led by those from the well educated class of people.Articles I've read about Nigerian syndicates point to the same thing.

Kind of backwards, because you don't think of well educated people being recruited into, or forming criminal syndicates. The assumption is that the other organized crime groups are mainly made up of those from the lower segments of their society.


I've read that the guys who became the newly minted millionaires when the Soviet Union collapsed were the former Russian mafia guys.