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NCA arrests third member of child trafficking gang in Nigeria (2 April 2015)

Date: 02/04/2015
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, NCA arrests third member of child trafficking gang in Nigeria

A woman arrested in Benin City in Nigeria on suspicion of child trafficking offences is likely to be extradited to the UK to face charges, after she and her accomplices used Heathrow Airport to traffic children into Europe.

Franca Asemota, 36, is suspected of being one of the ringleaders of a sex exploitation gang, which trafficked children into the sex trade in Europe.

Asemota was arrested on suspicion of money laundering offences, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said. She had managed to flee a European Arrest Warrant issued when she was in Italy, but the NCA tracked her down to Benin City.

A spokesman for the NCA said:

“Asemota’s arrest was the result of exceptional collaboration with our partners at home and in Nigeria.”

In 2013, another member of the gang – Odosa Usiobaifo from Enfield in north London – was jailed for 14 years for conspiring to traffic for sex exploitation.

In 2014, a man who acted as the girls’ chaperone from Nigeria to Europe – David Osawaru – was arrested in the UK and jailed for nine years, after he was detained at Heathrow by UK Border Force officials, after trafficking two women from Nigeria to Prague via Heathrow.

The trafficking gang trafficked young women and girls aged below 18 from remote villages in Nigeria, transporting them to EU countries via Heathrow.

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