Thirty people of Nigerian nationality were arrested during two rounds of judicial police raids in June and September following a 15 month investigation.
Police identified suspects who collected cash from young Nigerian women prostituting themselves in different cities across France, officers said, estimating the network laundered between €30 and €50 million ($35-58 million) in the last three years.
"The collectors were moving money from Lille, Colmar, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nice, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes or Paris," said head of anti-trafficking agency OCTREH, Jean-Marc Droguet.
A hair salon and a grocery store in northern Paris were used as collection points for the money before it was handed over to carriers who concealed the cash in double-bottomed suitcases and left the country.
The carriers would sometimes pass through other European capitals and African countries to avoid suspicion, officers said, but the money was always destined for Nigeria.
"Everything was going back home," Droguet said.
Two Nigerian mafia gangs, the Supreme Eiye Confraternity (SEC) and Black Axe, were involved in the network, officers said.
Police have so far managed to recover just a fraction of the money: €200,000 in March and €250,000 in June.
from thelocal.fr
All sheds of wrong. Selling your fellow human beings and feeling good about it? Where is conscience? God save us and our children and children children from traffickers.
ReplyDeleteThese girls(and their parents) are aware of what they are going to do abroad.In Benin,some of these parents beg these traffickers to take their girl(s).If they weren't aware,do you think they would willingly walk into a shrine,watch their pubic hairs shaved and then take one stupid oath?If you have ever met a Benin girl,then you would know that she could NEVER be forced to take an oath in Benin city, the whole shrine go scatter na.We need to dey pray make the kain poverty wey dey remove common sense nor affect us.Poverty,combined with greed is a lethal combination
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ReplyDeleteThe traffickers and cultists are cursed! Their blood money will never bring anything good for them. MY heart felt prayers for the women who were and are being trafficked. This is what a useless government brings.
ReplyDeleteLike play like play, campus cults don become international ashawo sellers o?
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