A Nigerian woman, who was on the list of the ‘100 most dang€rous and wanted fugitives in the world,’ has been extradited to Italy to serve a 13-year jail term for offences bordering on “criminal conspiracy, ensl@vement, human tr@fficking and exploitation of pro§tit¥tion.”
The 48-year-old fugitive, identified as Jeff Joy, was extradited from Abuja to Italy after years of being on an Italian wanted list.
Joy, who has been described as a prominent figure in the Nigerian mafia, was responsible for receiving potential Nigerian victims upon their arrival in Italy and managing their operations as they settled in the country.
Italian National Police in a statement on Wednesday, March 8, said:
“The investigations by the Ancona policemen date back to 2007 when the woman held an important role in the management of the pro§tit¥tion business between Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, characterized by viol£nce and thr£ats also against the families of girls in Nigeria.
The crim¥nal is one of the few women included in the list of 100 dang£rous fugitives, drawn up by the integrated joint group for the search for fugitives of the Central Directorate of the Criminal Police.
Her extradition represents the first provision under the extradition treaty between Italy and Nigeria, signed in 2020, and was possible thanks to the joint work of the Nigerian judiciary, the Italian ambassador in Nigeria and the Italian Ministry of Justice.
“Following an investigation by officials of the International Police Cooperation Service (SCIP) in the African country and the issuance of a red notice in 2010, the Department of State Services (DSS), the Nigerian intelligence service, managed to track down and arrest the woman on June 4, 2022.”
