나이지리아 범죄조직 국내 활동 실태 및 대응방안

Abstract

Nigeria is the most populated African nation that has heavenly-gifted natural environments and lots of different underground resources. Nevertheless, the nation has currently been fallen into a criminal country that has no sense of guilt. This problem is attributed to several factors including ethnic conflicts over oil resources distribution or religion and political corruption. Among the factors, however, the most notable things that contribute to the emergence and activities of Nigerian crime organizations are the English-speaking African nation’s educational conditions heavily affected from a rapid dissemination of mobile devices or systems, and actions by terrorist group Boko Haram and a resultant surge in refugees. In Korea, how much sizeable and how much active locally stationed Nigerian scam crime organizations are have yet to be substantially determined. However, it is fact that conning skills called ‘romance scams’ or ‘business scams’, which are connected to Nigerian organized crime members, have already been introduced to Korea, claiming a lot of victims and resultantly causing a continuous increase in financial damage. Among the members are, it has been found, those who immigrated to Korea nominally as spouses who would marry Koreans, applied for the status of being refugee after entry to this country with diplomatic visas or who have been illegally staying in Korea for more than a decade. In order to cope with such Nigerian organized crimes, there are largely two parts of measures. One part is measures that Korea may take in its domestic level and the other part, measures based on international cooperation. Here, the former includes muscling up policing local regions where Nigerians are densely concentrated and strengthening public relations using TV and press broadcasts that aim to prevent Nigerian scam crimes. While, the latter includes Korea’s active participation in international development cooperation projects such as enhancing Nigerian security capabilities and supporting the electronic government establishment and cyber security improvement of the African country. In association, the Korean government should seriously consider not only a supportive supply of police equipment for the above mentioned security capability enhancement, but also an active involvement in the installation project of crime prevention networks across Nigeria provided the advance of Korean equipment manufacturers to that project.