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Having dismally failed to raise loan money from either the bank or his over-bearingly rich father-in-law, he wants his wife (Kristin Rudrud) kidnapped without harm in order to extort a million-dollar ransom.
After leading a vagabond life in the south of Spain, he was arrested at Ecija, was brought to Toledo, and was tortured with extreme ferocity in order to extort a general confession as to his life during the past months.
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But interfering with an aircraft's systems, including inducing a catastrophic failure, in order to extort money is a distinct possibility, he warns.There are two ways this could be done, one more likely than the other.
The 135,000-strong force has an appalling record of arresting innocent people in order to extort money from them, while leaving known criminals to go free in return for a part of their criminal earnings.
Take a hostage through peri-legal means in order to extort the family of the prisoner/hostage.
One of her daring single-take scenes is set in a subway car, where a young hipsterish man and woman brazenly, even cheerfully set in motion a plot to kidnap the woman's own sister, in order to extort money from her father, whom she despises.
According to a Royalist newsletter, while in the Tower she was threatened with the rack in order to extort information.
Some security outfits have also been accused of helping attacks in order to extort more money for security.
Criminals and insurgents are freed with a well-placed bribe, criminal records are expunged for payment, detainees are abused by guards in order to extort money from relatives.
In Taiwan recently, there was a scare that female Filipino servants were systematically seducing male members of the household in order to extort money from them.
Governments around the world continue to employ rape and mutilation, and to harm family members, including children, in order to extort confessions or information.
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