WHEN IS A NIGERIAN FRAUDSTER NOT A NIGERIAN? WHEN HE IS POSING AS A WEST INDIAN, WIELDING A PASSPORT FROM AN EAST CARIBBEAN CBI STATE, AND FURTHER EXPLOITING NORTH AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS WITH HIS BOGUS NATIONALITY

I am extremely disturbed by CHRISTIAN NESHEIM's comment on Linkedin, boasting that there are twenty-four companies in Nigeria selling Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) passports to Nigerian nationals. Nigeria is the epicenter for African-based financial crime, which targets victims in North America and in Europe. Who else do you think has the US Dollars to pay a six figure fee for a CBI passport, Christian? Those citizenships are financially out of reach for most Nigerians. Believe me, the last thing the West needs is more Nigerian fraudsters, hiding behind a Caribbean passport to perpetrate their scams.

Nigerian nationals can travel visa-free to a very small number of countries, especially those in the developed world, in large part because of significant financial crime abroad being conducted by Nigerian nationals, a small portion of the population, but extremely active in romance fraud, pig butchering, investment fraud, sextortion and other types of white collar crime that exploits unsophisticated victims. EC CBI states that alter places of birth, names and birthdates on economic citizenships make the tasks of law enforcement in identifying the criminals much more difficult.

Given that Nigerians can freely travel visa-free, to the five East Caribbean CBI states that have passport sales programs, it is strongly suggested that those few wealthy, legitimate Nigerians in need of a second passport journey there in person, and that the obscene number of passport vendors and consultants be closed down by Nigerian law enforcement agencies as threats to National Security, and knowing facilitators of criminal activity. Nigeria's criminal elite should not have the ability to disguise themselves from being identified through dodgy economic citizenship passports.