Italy Arrests Dozens of Suspected Nigerian Mafia Members

In a sweeping operation in two Italian cities, police arrested 74 members of the Nigerian mafia, including the alleged leader, 50-year-old Emmanuel “Boogye” Okenwe, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. Some 200 officers targeted Boogye’s gang last week in the cities of Turin and Ferarra. The self-styled “King of Ferrara” headed the gang known as the ‘Arobaga Vikings’ or ‘Norsemen Kclub International.’ Turin has been the center of the Nigerian mafia in Italy for over a decade, Sergio Nazzaro, an Italian journalist, writer and adviser to the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission, told the OCCRP on Tuesday.  Nazzaro recently published a book on Nigerian…