A total of 34 people were arrested in Spain in an operation targeting a Nigerian criminal organisation known as ‘Black Axe’, Europol reported in a statement on Friday 9 January.
The European agency estimates that this network, created in the late 1970s in Nigeria, is involved in a wide range of criminal activities, including “cyber-enabled fraud, drug trafficking, human trafficking and prostitution, kidnapping, armed robbery and fraudulent spiritual practices”, which are said to...