Six Nigerians extradited to US over $6m romance scam ring

Six Nigerian men, held in Cape Town since 2021, were extradited to the United States on Friday to face wire fraud and money laundering charges — the culmination of a years-long international investigation into the Black Axe criminal network's practice of manufacturing intimacy as a weapon of financial extraction. More than 100 American women, many of them pensioners and businesspeople, were drawn into fabricated relationships and relieved of over six million dollars before the architecture of deception was traced back to its architects. The handover at Cape Town's international airport, coordi