Nigerian mafia, turnover of billions. Headquarters in Benin City
The Nigerian mafia in recent years it has become one of the most ferocious and feared criminal association of all the world. Is called Black Axe and currently matters 30 thousand affiliates, but the numbers continue to grow. Everything – we read in the press – has begun Benin City, capital of the Nigerian state ofEdo. This is where 40 years ago an unscrupulous local gang devoted to violence has made itself known. The affiliate method to the gang it is considered brutal, whipped on the legs, naked with the face in the mud to suffer blows and insults. Those who survive become a Black Ax and are granted eternal protection from the group.
Over the years – continues La Stampa – the group has evolved into one criminal structure of global proportions, it finds political covers and slips into the nigerian ganglia of power. The strategic design goes beyond executions and struggles for the control of a territory or the local market. Canadian authorities in 2017 unmasked one money laundering scheme connected to this mafia worth of 5 billion dollars. If filtered by Bbc they found out how they work. “The zones are divided and each of them has a reference that demands an annual membership fee from its followers.” The proceeds from the scams then end up in Benin City, come on leader of the mafia. Which mainly hires local labor boys between 16 and 23 years old, for its trades.
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