Nigerians Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/nigerians/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Nigerians Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/nigerians/ 32 32 Mozambique expels Brazilian drug kingpin https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/mozambique-expels-brazilian-drug-kingpin/ Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/mozambique-expels-brazilian-drug-kingpin/ A Brazilian drug kingpin arrested in Mozambique has been expelled. A Brazilian Air Force jet with dozens of police officers come to fetch Gilberto Aparecido Dos Santos and took him home to face justice. Brazil’s largest cocaine smuggler, known by as Fuminho, is a leader of the São Paulo-based First Capital Command gang that  moved […]

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]]> A Brazilian drug kingpin arrested in Mozambique has been expelled.

A Brazilian Air Force jet with dozens of police officers come to fetch Gilberto Aparecido Dos Santos and took him home to face justice.

Brazil’s largest cocaine smuggler, known by as Fuminho, is a leader of the São Paulo-based First Capital Command gang that  moved drugs all over the planet.

Among the charges he faces back in Brazil is plotting to free the head of the gang, Marcos Camacho,  who is serving a 200 year sentence in a maximum security prison.

Gilbert Aparecido Dos Santos was arrested last week in a luxury Maputo Hotel with two Nigerian citizens. A quantity of drugs was seized.

His capture is part of an international sting operation.

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]]> Brazil’s top cocaine smuggle arrested in Mozambique https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/brazils-top-cocaine-smuggle-arrested-in-mozambique/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/brazils-top-cocaine-smuggle-arrested-in-mozambique/ Brazil’s biggest cocaine smuggler has been arrested in Brazil. Police running the international sting operation are looking for cronies. They say he is part of big São Paulo gang and does not operate alone. Forty nine year old Gilberto Aparecido do Santos was nabbed at the luxury Monetebelo Indy hotel in Maputo. Two Nigerian citizens […]

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]]> Brazil’s biggest cocaine smuggler has been arrested in Brazil.

Police running the international sting operation are looking for cronies. They say he is part of big São Paulo gang and does not operate alone.

Forty nine year old Gilberto Aparecido do Santos was nabbed at the luxury Monetebelo Indy hotel in Maputo.

Two Nigerian citizens were seized with him.

Dos Santos, known as Fuminho, is part of the game known as the First Capital Community of PCC.

They move tons of cocaine all over the world.

He arrived in Mozambique a month ago

Police seized a fake Brazilian passport, a quantity of dagga, several mobile phones and a car during the operation.

Dos Santos is accused of financing a plot to free a fellow gang member serving a 200-year term in a maximum security prison in Brazil

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]]> NGOs say migrants were executed in Gambia on Yahya Jammeh’s orders https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/ngos-say-migrants-were-executed-in-gambia-on-yahya-jammehs-orders/ Tue, 15 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/ngos-say-migrants-were-executed-in-gambia-on-yahya-jammehs-orders/ Human Rights Watch says a paramilitary unit controlled by former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh was behind the killings of more than 50 West African migrants in 2005. The  watchdog group is involved in joint investigation with  TRIAL International that involved interviewing 30 former Gambian officials, including 11 officers, and a survivor of the round-up as […]

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]]> Human Rights Watch says a paramilitary unit controlled by former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh was behind the killings of more than 50 West African migrants in 2005.

The  watchdog group is involved in joint investigation with  TRIAL International that involved interviewing 30 former Gambian officials, including 11 officers, and a survivor of the round-up as part of a joint investigation.

Human Right Watch and the Swiss-based group fighting impunity say 44 Ghanaians and several Nigerians, Senegalese, as well as a Togolese  were arrested on a beach in Gambia while trying to reach Europe.

They were suspected of being mercenaries wanting to overthrow thenPresident Yahya  Jammeh.

The NGOs, say in a joint statement the migrants were handed over to a paramilitary unit, and executed on Jammeh’s orders.

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