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Pirate gangs fuelling record number of ‘easy money’ kidnaps raking in $50k per victim, Brit ex-Marine reveals Exclusive 17 Feb 2021, 14:34 PIRATES gangs are giving up stealing cargo in favour of "easy money" kidnappings which can net them ransoms of up to $50,000 per victim, a former Royal Marine has told us. Wielding machine guns and RPGs, sea-faring criminals kidnapped 135 people last year alone - the highest figure in ten years - with a record number being snatched in the Gulf of Guinea ...