Two British males arrested in Benidorm after ‘staging fake kidnapping’ to extort £725 | EUROtoday

Two British males have been arrested in Spain for allegedly staging a weird pretend kidnapping to extort £725 price of money from a relative, police have stated.

The 51-year-old and 37-year-old man are stated to have despatched a member of the family a video that seems to point out the alleged kidnapping sufferer lined in blood and being threatened with a knife.

They demanded that the ransom be transferred into the abductor’s checking account or the alleged sufferer could be killed, in response to police. The recipient of the video alerted British authorities to the supposed risk.

An investigation started after police acquired a tip-off from Interpol {that a} British citizen had been kidnapped in Benidorm, a preferred vacationer metropolis.

Specialist items have been known as in from Madrid to assist, however when officers arrived on the resort the place the supposed crime was going down, they noticed the 2 males strolling out of the constructing in a “relaxed and amicable way”, Alicante Newspaper reported.

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The males have been arrested on suspicion of simulating against the law and for fraud. While they have been being fingerprinted, officers found that the alleged kidnapper had offered a false title when he checked into the resort and when arrested by police.

He was subsequently charged with id theft, in response to Olive Press.

“Our investigation began after a tip-off from Interpol about the possible abduction of a British national in the resort,” a spokesperson for Alicante police advised the Daily Mail.

“A relative of the man who had apparently been kidnapped, who initially alerted authorities in the UK, said he had received videos in which the supposed victim was covered in blood and the alleged kidnapper was threatening him with a knife.

“Officers contacted British consular officials so they could provide the images they’d received from the tipster.

“The British authorities also provided recordings of conversations in which the ‘kidnapper’ made ransom demands saying the man he had hostage would be killed if the money wasn’t paid.”

After figuring out the situation of the resort, police ready for a rescue operation – and found the pair had checked in days earlier.

The Independent has contacted Spain’s nationwide police for an replace.