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Re:US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypte... by ordu on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:30AM (#20894253)
Why relatives of a victim didn't stopped informing police about the kidnaping? If government didn't know, then bank accounts wouldn't be blocked. Now a victim has a reason to not inform government, and now it is possible to kidnappings to continue without any government record, and we may come to a situation when it is all nice on the paper, while it becomes even worse than was before law-maker's intervention.

Was those bank accounts blocks where a successful move, or kidnappings stopped due to other measures government made?

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Re:US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypte... by Lucadg on Friday September 06, 2019 @10:16AM (#20895817)
I can only assume that hiding the kidnapping of a prominent person for months is really hard. Also in a time of high distress most people probably preferred to seek help from the state rather than making the situation even more complex and stressful.
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