Six Nigerian nationals accused of defrauding more than one hundred women in the United States through online romance scams of more than R100 million are being extradited to American authorities today.
Col. Katlego Mogale, spokesperson for the Hawks, says the men are accused of being members of the Black Axe organised crime network and are wanted in the US on charges of electronic fraud and money laundering. Pensioners and businesspeople are among the alleged victims in what were targeted online relationships designed to rob them of their money.
The six were arrested in South Africa in 2021 during a major operation by the Hawks. The men will be transported from a correctional facility in Cape Town to Cape Town International Airport, where they are expected to be handed over this afternoon by Interpol SA to officials from the FBI and the US Secret Service.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
