{"id":45229,"date":"2026-09-11T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45229"},"modified":"2026-09-11T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:25:09","slug":"sa-hawks-to-extradite-six-nigerians-to-us","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-hawks-to-extradite-six-nigerians-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"SA hawks to extradite six Nigerians to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_divRplyFwdMsg\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The South African (SA) Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation, better known as the Hawks will extradite six Nigerian nationals to the United States (US) this afternoon.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>This follows a massive international crackdown on a multi-million-Dollar online romance scam.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The six are suspected to be members of the notorious Black Axe organised crime network.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>They are accused of targeting more than 100 US women, including businesspeople and vulnerable pensioners. The suspects were arrested in SA in 2021, following a major Hawks operation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014ChannelAfrica\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14454,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-45229","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"This follows a massive international crackdown on a multi-million-Dollar online romance scam.\u00a0","published_date":"","news_description":"This follows a massive international crackdown on a multi-million-Dollar online romance scam.\u00a0","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45230,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45229\/revisions\/45230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}