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Pirate gangs fuelling record number of ‘easy money’ kidnaps raking in $50k per victim, Brit ex-Marine reveals
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17 Feb 2021, 14:34
PIRATES gangs are giving up stealing cargo in favour of easy money kidnappings which can net them ransoms of up to $50,000 per victim, a former Royal Marine has told us.
Wielding machine guns and RPGs, sea-faring criminals kidnapped 135 people last year alone - the highest figure in ten years - with a record number being snatched in the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa.
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Experts told The Sun Online pirates are turning to kidnapping as they consider it a much easier and more lucrative way of making cash than stealing cargo.