The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria will hear an
application in which eight Nigerians nabbed for a
“sweetheart” cyber scam seek to stop the South African
government from extraditing them to stand trial in the US. The matter was on the roll on Tuesday
‚ but Judge Elizabeth Kabushi postponed
the matter for the preparations of heads
of argument by the state and the
applicants. Last week Thursday‚ Judge Kabushi
granted an interim order stopping the
extradition of the eight. The judge also
ordered “the state to immediately take
necessary steps to have” Seson Olimede
Farin and Femi Alexandra Mewase - who had already been extradited - returned to
SA pending the finalisation of the matter. The Nigerians‚ along with a South African
woman‚ were nabbed by the Hawks in
April last year in raids conducted in
Sunnyside‚ Pretoria. Several other alleged
syndicate members were also arrested in
the same operation in Canada and the US. The two-year investigation began after
agents from US Homeland Security
Investigations were tipped off by a
Mississippi woman about a suspicious
parcel she had received from Pretoria. The Mississippi woman had nearly fallen
victim to the "sweetheart" scam. The woman approached the US
authorities after she had been told to
ship the contents of the parcel back to the
address in Pretoria. The investigation
revealed that the merchandise was
packaged using stolen personal identity information and fraudulent credit card information from a US citizen. Hundreds of US citizens are believed to have fallen victim to
the scam. According to the Hawks‚ the syndicate has operated for years
‚ purchasing shipping labels from the US Postal Service and
courier companies using fraudulent credit card information
and stolen identities. Once the stolen merchandise reached
South Africa‚ the suspects advertised it for sale on the
internet. The accused's lawyer‚ Thesigan Pillay‚ argued in court papers
that the magistrate who granted the extradition acted
unconstitutionally and unlawfully. He also contended that there has been a diplomatic failure in
terms of co-operation between SA and Nigeria and the only
SA accused was given preferential treatment. – RDM News
Wire, The Times

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2015/05/27/Nigerian-‘sweetheart-scam-syndicate’-fight-extradition-to-face-music-in-US

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Free visa to America at last.
..........only that they might end up having to be someone else's biiitch in prison.

The greatest scam in the world is destroying a country for the benefits of oil or better still, the global economy recession or meltdown that tripped the USA debt and millions lost their life savings. Such fraudulent financial institutions are AIG, Lehman brothers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac etc. With their CEOs given huge bonuses. The South African and Nigerian goverment need to get their act together. We need each other.