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| Cabeza Fernandez Abduction: Bad Guys Want $2.3 Million USD |
| 2010-07-16 |
| Google Translate Mexican politician Diego Fernandez de Cevallos who was kidnapped two months ago was reported in good health after "proof of life" was provided the family Sunday, say Mexican press accounts. The family of Fernandez received a brief telephone call from Cabeza Fernandez Sunday. Fernandez, one of Mexico's most respected politicians and a close friend of Mexican president Felipe Calderon, was kidnapped May 14th near his farm near Pedro Escobedo, Queretaro amid evidence of a violent struggle. In the intervening time the family, through legal representation, requested the government suspend investigation of the crime to allow negotiations to proceed uninhibited. Reports are the kidnappers, part of a criminal gang which specializes in abductions for profit for more than 20 years, have demanded more than 30 million pesos (US $2,345,196) in cash, down from an initial demand for 50 million pesos (US $3,908,660). The family has been selling personal and real property trying to raise the ransom. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 At least the currency of kidnappers is still dollars! |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-07-16 11:44 |
| #2 Give them a Lotto ticket and tell'm they have to take their chances like everyone else. And its a much bigger payoff. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-07-16 09:48 |
| #1 Bad Guys Want $2.3 Million USD Not Euros? |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-16 00:41 |