GROUP 8

NIGERIAN ORGANIZED CRIME

Considered by law enforcement officers as ‘organized crime’
particularly in the field of drugs and fraud.
NIGERIA ORGANIZED
CRIME
ACTIVITIES
FRAUD
An advance free scam and one of the most common types of confidence tricks Involves
promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-
front payment.
EMPLOYMENT SCAMS
This scam targets people who have posted their resumes on job sites. The scammer sends a
letter with a falsified company logo.

BUGOS JOB OFFERS

More sophisticated scams advertise jobs with real companies and offer lucrative salaries
and conditions with the fraudsters pretending to be recruitment agents.

CASH-HANDLING SCAM
The scammers do internet searches on various companies to obtain hiring manager’s
names. The scammers guarantees employment , usually through automated computer
programs that have a certain algorithm, with “canned responses” in broken english.
LOTTERY SCAM
Involves fake notices of lottery wins , although the intended victim has not
entered the lottery.

ONLINE SALES AND RENTALS

It is a kind of scam which involve the purchase of goods and services via
classified advertisments, especially on sites like Craigslist, eBay, or Gumtree.

PET SCAMS
This is a variation of the online sales scam where high-value , scare pets are
advertised as bait on online advertising websites.

ROMANCE SCAM
A money-for-romance angle.
MOBILE TOWER INSTALLATION FRAUD
The fraudster uses internet classsified websites and print media to lure the public for the
installation of a mobile phone tower on their property, with the promise of huge rental retrns

DRUG TRAFFICKING
Drug trafficking is the production, distribution, and sale of illegal drugs across state lines or
countries.
Nigerian criminal records are heavily involved in drug trafficking, shipping heroin from Asian
countries to Europe and America; and cocaine from South America to Europe and South Africa.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING & KIDNAPPINGS

Nigeria is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children subjected to
trafficking in persons including forced labor and forced prostitution.
 MOST
POPULAR
FRATERNITY
IN NIGERIA
 NEO BLACKMOVEMENT “AKA”
BLACK AXE CULT
Registered non-pakistan, non-religious and non-tribal
organization.
It was formed at the University of Benin in Benin City in 1976.

SOME OF THEIR BELIEFS:

1. The black man will be freed with an axe
2. No phyuk ups
3. forgiveness is a sin
4. Don’t betray your brother in the hood
5. Obey before complaining or abeyance
6. He who price must pay
7. Members are referred to as: aye axe-men, seven (7) or amigos
ALBANIAN MOB
Albanian mafia or Albanian organized crime
(Albanian:Mafia Shqiptare) - general terms used
for criminal organizations based in Albania or
composed of ethnic Albanians.
According to RIEAS, Albanian mafia groups are
hybrid organizations, often involved in both
criminal and political activities.
CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES OF ALBANIAN:

TRAFFICKING IN:
1. Drugs
2. Arms
3. Humans
4. Human organs
 CLAN HIERARCHY

“KYRE” OR “BOSS”

“KRYETAR” OR
“UNDERBOSSES”

“MIK” OR “FRIEND”
MEMBERSHIP:
Deep reliant on loyalty, honour, and family with blood relation and
marriage.
Albanian mafia families or clans are usually made up of groups that have
thousands of members.
According to Ionnis Michaletos, the family structure is characterized by a
strong inner discipline, which is achieved by means of punitive action from
every deviation from internal rules.
Official laws considered to be secondary, unimportant, and non-binding.
Albanian mafia families are organized in 4-6 or more levels
CLANS BY REGION IN ALBANIA
This are clans that operate in certain towns or cities:
In Shijak, the Xhakja Clan is powerful and has an extensive
history of cri inal family members.
The Bregus or “Bregu” crime family - run by Armir Bregu, who
is serving time in United Kingdom.
Osmani Family
“Banda e Lushnjës” whose boss “Aldo Bare” has since been
prosecuted.
RITUALS AND CODE OF CONDUCT
BESA - “Code of Honor”
-during recruitment process, a member inducted into the Albanian mafia is
required to take an oath.
-oath is defined as “Besa”
-important in Albanian culture and is considered a verbal contract of trust.
-In North Albania, when somebody gives you his Besa, He has given you
his life and is going to protect you with his life.
RUSSIAN ORGANIZED CRIME
-Also known as “BRATVA” or “RED MAFIA”
-Members are called “vor” a thief.
-It is a term used to refer to other collective of various organized crime elements
originating in the formre SOVIET UNION.
-Kills anybody and any one who stands in their way and threatens their organization
including law enforcement officials, Poliicians, Federal officials, Government officials
and Military officials.
-Charactreized as a highly-trained paramilitary organization.
-In 1993, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported there were over 5,000
organized crime groups operating in Russia.
RUSSIAN BRATVA STRUCTURE

1 2 3 4 5
PAKHAN TWO SPIES SOVIETNIK OBSHCHACK BRIGADIER

6 7 8 9 10
BOYEVIK KRYSHAS TORPEDOS BYKI SHESTYYORKA
THIEVES’ CODE OF CONDUCT
-Traditional Code of conduct in Russia is called “Vory v Zakone” or thieves of law.
-Members are bound by 18 codes
-Law enforcement officials in the former Soviet Union indicate that most of the organized
crime groups are well organized with sophisticated technical equipment,computers,
transportation, financial support, and an excellent counterintelligence network.
-Those groups are involved in extortion, precious metal and raw material smuggling,
money laundering, fraud, weapons smuggling, narcotics trafficking, and black marketing.
THE THIEVES’ CODE
A thief is bound by the code to:
1. Forsake his relatives
2. Not have a family of his own
3. Never, under any circumstances work, no matter howmuch difficulty this brings.
4. Help other thives
5. Keep secret info. about the whereabouts of accomplices
6. In unavoidable presentations to take the blame for someone else’s crime; this buys the
other person time of freedom.
7. Demand a convocation of inquiry for the purpose of resolving disputesin the event of a
conflict between oneself and other thieves, or between thieves.
8. If necessary, participate in such inquiries
9. Carry out the punishment of the offending thief as decided by the convovation.
THE THIEVES’ CODE
A thief is bound by the code to:
11. Have good command of the thieves ‘jargon (”Fehnay”).
12. Not gamble without being able to cover losses.
13. Teach the trade to young beginners.
14. Have, if possible, informants from the rank and file of thieves.
25. Not lose your reasoning ability when using alcohol.
26. Have nothing to do with the authorities, not participate in public authorities, nor join any
community organizations.
17. Not take weapons from the hands of authorities; not serve in the military.
ISRAEL MAFIA
1 9 7 0 ' s t o 1 9 8 0 ' s
ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDES:
Operating casinos , and other forms of gambling , Car theft, Prostitution, Drug
traficking, Human Trafficking, Money Laundering, Protection and Extortion of
rackets, Loan Sharking and Drug dealing.
According to Israel’s former Police Commissioner David Cohen, Israeli Crime
Organizations had penetrated the formal economic sector and local governments,
The “Iakhbal” is the Israeli Special Police Unit that fights organized crime.
major crime groups :
1. abergil crime family
Morrocan Jewish-Crime organization.
Founded by Yaakov Abergil until his death in 2002, now run under the
auspices of Itzhak (Itzik) Abergil and his brothers Meir Abergil and
Avraham (Ibi).
Considered one of the six major organized crime cells in Israel
One of the world’s top 40 biggest drug importers to united states
Its illicit activities includes drug trafficking, murder, extortion,
embezzlement, money laundering, the control of illegal casinos and other
crimes.
On january 12, 2011 Itzhak and Abergil and three associates were
extradited to the United States.
77-page 32-count indictment filed on july 13,2008 at federal court in Los
Angeles to Abergil Family.
Considered of the most powerful crime families in Israel “because of its
propensity for violence in Israel and around the world.
2. ZEEV ROSENSTEIN FAMILY
Famuos Israel mob boss and drug
trafficker
In november 2004, after 700,000 ecstacy
tablets were seized in a Manhattan
apartment, Rosenstein was charged with
distributing ecstasy in the United States in
a joint effort of U.S Department of Justice
and Israel Ministry of Justice.
3. ALPERON CRIME FAMILY
Tel Aviv’s third largest crime family, headed by
Yaacov Alperon
Alperon has served prison terms on multiple
occasions
He has been arrested for stabiings, assault,
blackmail and intimidation over the course of
his carrer.
4. ABUTBUL FAMILY
Headed by Felix Abutbul - 50-year-old Alleged
Crime Kingpin of Netanya and the Sharon
Region
One of the most notoriuos criminal enterprises
in the entire country.
Felix Abutbul was murdered at Plague Casino
in 2002. Alperon is suspected to have been
involved in the killing.