Three men who were jailed for conning a woman out of her life savings in a romance fraud were working for the notorious international Black Axe gang, gardaí suspect.
And we can reveal that the thugs sent around €250,000 of the victim’s money from Ireland to accounts linked to fake companies set up in Turkey and Vietnam. The gang is believed to have then used the money to buy products to ship back to Nigeria where they were sold.
The Nigerian Black Axe gang is one of the biggest fraud gangs in the world and is behind a spate of romance scams across Ireland. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard the woman met a man calling himself Neil Turner on dating site Plenty of Fish in November 2019.
