Internet Fraud and Kidnaping in Benin

Europe 1 and Agence Frence-Presse reported on May 31 that an American Internet fraud victim who had been abducted the week before in Benin was freed, and two Nigerian kidnapers apprehended, according to the Benin Interior Ministry.  A Ministry spokesman stated that the American "was found in the Mono [a department of Benin at the border with Togo] and two of his kidnapers, who were Nigerian, were arrested and in the hands of the Benin police."  The spokeman credited the combined efforts of the FBI and the Benin police.