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The Italian Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the case of a businessman kidnapped in Côte d’Ivoire, when he traveled there to do volunteer work – that is, the businessman claimed that the reason for the trip was that. But new information was known this Tuesday: Claudio Forminton met a young woman, Olivia Martins, on the Internet and was going to meet her in person, Nutícia or Corella della Sera. in loveBefore they knew it, he was in the hands of a group of kidnappers.
The young woman, whose existence Italian researchers suspect, I had already asked him for money to pay lawyers’ fees, but the businessman refused to help.
On the flight on November 27, 2021, a taxi driver was waiting for Forminton to arrive at the airport in Abidjan, at Olivia’s alleged request. The Italian believed that the man could be trusted, got into the car and lost the place of Forminton for three days, during which time he was missing. Friends and family, unable to contact the 67-year-old businessman, reported it to the Italian police.
Italian investigators discovered Formenton’s exact location via his cell phone: a hotel room in Benoit, a town in the interior of the country. They reported this location to the special forces in Ivory Coast, who stormed the hotel and released the businessman. He was also with him one of the kidnappers, who was arrested.
