A Nigerian mafia organisation in Italy that deals in human trafficking for prostitution and drug smuggling have been busted with no fewer than 73 of it members including their leader taken into police custody.
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50-year-old Emmanuel Okenwa aka ‘Boogye’ is known as the gang leader and controls the entire operation of the gang.
The large scale arrest was carried out by more than 200 Italian policemen in Turin and Ferrara against the Nigerian mafia organization called Arobaga Vikings or Norsemen Kclub International, an Italian newspaper reported.
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The mafia according to investigation is organized into local cells called Decks and are present in many Italian cities.
In all, 43 were taken into custody in Turin while 31 people where arrested in Ferrara including several women who allegedly ran prostitution rings.
Bologna preliminary investigations judge Gianluca Petragnani Gelosi said the Vikings’ criminal plan was to “violently annihilate” other Nigerian crime outfits and take over their turf.
Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said the police guard against criminal organizations and their illegal trafficking was high even amid the COVID emergency.
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