General Mackevili wrote:

JBTrain wrote:You all have completely missed the juicy back story.

http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica ... droga.html

Nice one. Has it been confirmed that he's one in the same? If so, how? Picture? Name only?

Google Translate:

Akudo, Pimpernel drug
meo bridge In the ten years of his underground in the casbah of Porta Palazzo not only managed to avoid control meanwhile organizing a lucrative criminal enterprise, investing the profits of the exploitation of prostitution, care kilos of cocaine from the Netherlands Antilles, but has also gained l 'admired nickname Akudo, in the Nigerian language, "He who is self-made." To put an end to the legend of Jeffery said Emekwo Akudo, born 25 years ago in Nigeria and immigrated illegally just fifteen in Turin, we thought the police of the Society Oltredora that, with an 'investigation lasted just over six months, and coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Marcello Tatangelo, faced down the organization of drug traffickers, arrested him and seven accomplices and seized four kilos of pure cocaine. Investigators Oltredora eyes of Jeffery said Emekwo Akudo had put them for some time, picking up rumors that were circulating about the character at Porta Palazzo. He d 'Besides fed the legend with a secretary, a driver and a man of faith who collected the orders of the quantities of drugs and followed him in the four rooms available. Last March, however, the police had managed to arrest Nicolas Ianherbert, 27, a Nigerian resident in Milan, with 400 grams of cocaine. Then, one by one were trapped couriers of the band, following different routes (TorinoAmsterdamCuraçao or TorinoAmsterdamMiamiLilla) imported drugs from the Netherlands Antilles. On April 21 in Amsterdam they had been arrested the two South African Kretschemer Erick, 40, and BW Ballard, 37, who in the stomach had three pounds of cocaine divided into eggs. On May 25, the Leonardo da Vinci in Rome was blocked Ighbinosa Lucy, 39, Nigerian, that egg in the belly had 170, for a total of 600 grams of cocaine. On June 4 in Verona had been arrested Evan Cyke Chukwu, 31, Nigerian and three days later in Caselle had been captured Massimo Pappano, 28, and Sara Saccucci, 22, owners of Speedy Pizza, a pizzeria in Corso Vercelli, after that under the clothes of the woman who simulated a pregnancy they were found various loaves for a kilo of cocaine. To import the drug couriers' s also they had melted and it had soaked clothes through a sophisticated chemical process which was then rebuilt on the contrary at your destination. Finally he, the Scarlet Pimpernel: Akudo was arrested by police in the course Beccaria.
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General Mackevili wrote:

Anchor Moy wrote:The article from La Repubblica is dated June 2001 as far as I can tell.

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So he was arrested in Italy 14 years ago for drugs ? If that's the same guy.

Strange.

Hmmm.... He's 40 now, so that would mean he was about 26 in 2001, when that article was published.

Is there anything in that article to suggest he wasn't 26, or anything else that suggests it wasn't?

20 giugno 2001. Preso il boss nigeriano latitante
Torino. Jeffery Emekwo, un nigeriano a capo di un’organizzazione
che investiva i proventi della prostituzione importando
cocaina dalle Antille olandesi, viene arrestato dai
carabinieri. Con Emekwo, latitante da 10 anni, vengono
sequestrati 4 chili di coca purissima, e finiscono in manette
altre 7 persone. Già a marzo la gang aveva cominciato a
sgretolarsi con la cattura di uno dei corrieri, Nicholas
Ianherbert, a cui era seguito l’arresto di altri complici ad
Amsterdam, Verona e Roma.

20 June 2001. Took the boss Nigerian fugitive
Turin . Jeffery Emekwo , a Nigerian heads an organization
that invested the proceeds of prostitution importing
cocaine from the Netherlands Antilles , is arrested by the
carabinieri . With Emekwo , a fugitive for 10 years, are
seized 4 kilos of pure cocaine , and end up in handcuffs
7 other people . Already in March the gang had started
crumble with the capture of one of the couriers , Nicholas
Ianherbert , which was followed by the arrest of other accomplices to
Amsterdam , Verona and Rome .

Anchor Moy wrote:

20 giugno 2001. Preso il boss nigeriano latitante
Torino. Jeffery Emekwo, un nigeriano a capo di un’organizzazione
che investiva i proventi della prostituzione importando
cocaina dalle Antille olandesi, viene arrestato dai
carabinieri. Con Emekwo, latitante da 10 anni, vengono
sequestrati 4 chili di coca purissima, e finiscono in manette
altre 7 persone. Già a marzo la gang aveva cominciato a
sgretolarsi con la cattura di uno dei corrieri, Nicholas
Ianherbert, a cui era seguito l’arresto di altri complici ad
Amsterdam, Verona e Roma.

Google translate:

20 June 2001. Took the boss Nigerian fugitive
Turin . Jeffery Emekwo , a Nigerian heads an organization
that invested the proceeds of prostitution importing
cocaine from the Netherlands Antilles , is arrested by the
carabinieri . With Emekwo , a fugitive for 10 years, are
seized 4 kilos of pure cocaine , and end up in handcuffs
7 other people . Already in March the gang had started
crumble with the capture of one of the couriers , Nicholas
Ianherbert , which was followed by the arrest of other accomplices to
Amsterdam , Verona and Rome .

In 2001 it says (or seems to say? translation?)that he had been a fugitive for 10 years.
All is possible, but ? the age doesn't seem probable.

Taken from : Omicron/33
Osservatorio Milanese sulla Criminalità Organizzata al Nord
Giugno/Luglio 2001– Anno VI – N.6/7

http://www.omicronweb.it/wp-content/upl ... cron33.pdf