{"id":342592,"date":"2017-08-06T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=342592"},"modified":"2017-08-06T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:28:00","slug":"british-model-kidnapped-in-milan-to-be-sold-in-online-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=342592","title":{"rendered":"British model kidnapped in Milan ‘to be sold in online auction’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A British model was drugged and kidnapped in Milan to be sold in an online auction, say Italian police.<\/p>\n

The woman, 20, had arrived in the city to take part in a photo shoot arranged through her agent, but was abducted and held captive for six days.<\/p>\n

Polish national Lukasz Herba, 30, who lives in the UK, has been arrested on kidnapping charges, police said.<\/p>\n

The Foreign Office said it was providing consular support to a British woman.<\/p>\n

The model, who has not been named, arrived in Milan on 10 July.<\/p>\n

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She arrived at an apartment the following day for the shoot, where she was attacked by two men,\u00a0said police.<\/p>\n

Police said the woman was drugged, handcuffed and loaded into a bag and put into the boot of car which was driven to an isolated house in Borgial, northwest of Turin.<\/p>\n

Italian prosecutor Paolo Storari said: “The victim was doped with ketamine – then she was locked in a bag and carried for hours in a car.<\/p>\n

“Think what could would have happened if she suffered from asthma.”<\/p>\n

The woman was kept handcuffed to a wooden chest of drawers in the bedroom for six days until she was released and taken to the British consulate in Milan, according to police.<\/p>\n

Investigators said they discovered the kidnapper had organised several online auctions for the sale of abducted girls, which included a description and an opening price.<\/p>\n

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Police said it was unclear whether he had really abducted the victims or invented them for the auction.<\/p>\n

The kidnapper used an encrypted account to ask the model’s agent for \u00a3230,000 ($300,000) to stop her from being sold in auction.<\/p>\n

He claimed he was working on behalf of the “Black Death Group”, an organisation which operates in the deep web for illegal traffics, police said.<\/p>\n

The victim told police the kidnapper said he would free her because the group had not realised she had a small child and they did not deal with mothers, prosecutors added.<\/p>\n

Investigations into the case are being carried out by authorities in Italy, Poland and the UK.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for West Midlands Police said an address in Sampson Close, Oldbury, had been raided on 18 July in connection with the inquiry.<\/p>\n

It is understood that the raid was led by Derbyshire Police, assisted by West Midlands officers.<\/p>\n

The kidnapper was captured by police as he was accompanying the model to the British Consulate in Milan,\u00a0according to the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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