TimesLIVE understands that six leaders of the Black Axe organised crime group’s Cape Town chapter were arrested in a coordinated operation involving the Hawks and US law enforcement authorities.
A seventh member of the group, who is not part of the leadership of the organisation, was also arrested. It is believed that an eighth person affiliated to the Black Axe organisation was also arrested in connection with a separate, but related, case. The group is believed to be behind hundreds of thousands of “romance scams”.
The scams are sophisticated and have highly organised Nigerian syndicate members, operating mainly from the Table Bay area along Cape Town’s west coast, posing as wealthy pensioners looking for love. Black Axe positioned itself as an organisation for the liberation of black people around the world. However, it was soon labelled a cult and banned under Nigerian law after it became synonymous with criminal activity globally.
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