Would your ransom from kidnappers be $48.75 millions?

[Sion]

FORMULA ONE supremo Bernie Ecclestone’s mother-in-law kidnapped in Brazil with ransom demand of $48.75 million

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/m...n/news-story/977e187193a0e2f6db02641043123ede

He was in Singapore and no one touched him.

 

[shierwin]

The kidnapping Act

http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/aol/sear...Id:d88217e2-2a03-4c8b-bdc8-283714305185;rec=0

In particular this clause in the Act:

"Abduction, wrongful restraint or wrongful confinement for ransom

3. Whoever, with intent to hold any person for ransom, abducts or wrongfully restrains or wrongfully confines that person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be punished on conviction with death or imprisonment for life and shall, if he is not sentenced to death, also be liable to caning."

 

[diver-hloc]

Not many people also have $48.75 million to give....

 

[daredevil123]

The kidnapping Act

http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/aol/sear...Id:d88217e2-2a03-4c8b-bdc8-283714305185;rec=0

In particular this clause in the Act:

"Abduction, wrongful restraint or wrongful confinement for ransom

3. Whoever, with intent to hold any person for ransom, abducts or wrongfully restrains or wrongfully confines that person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be punished on conviction with death or imprisonment for life and shall, if he is not sentenced to death, also be liable to caning."

In China, kidnapping for ransom comes with an automatic death sentence, unless the perps give themselves up without harming the victim. They are now pushing for death sentence for child abduction and human trafficking.

 

[diver-hloc]

In China, kidnapping for ransom comes with an automatic death sentence, unless the perps give themselves up without harming the victim. They are now pushing for death sentence for child abduction and human trafficking.

Unless kidnapped victims are books seller, selling banned books in HK, about China's Politicians... :think:

 

[daredevil123]

Unless kidnapped victims are books seller, selling banned books in HK, about China's Politicians... :think:

LOL， good one!

 

[UncleFai]

The nightmare of all rich persons.

 

[shierwin]

The nightmare of all rich persons.

In the 50s and 60s these kidnaps were so common that the new self-government enacted the Kidnapping Act. The Similar laws were introduced to combat against gangsters and lightning industrial strikes.

 

[Sion]

The nightmare of all rich persons.

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...d-me-financial-advice-says-tycoon-li-ka-shing

 

[s1221ljc]

Unless kidnapped victims are books seller, selling banned books in HK, about China's Politicians... :think:

Was there a demand for ransom? As stipulated in the laws?