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Dutch fail to recover ransom funds

This content was published on Feb 28, 2008 The Dutch authorities brought the unusual civil case against the NGO’s Swiss section, whose Dutch employee Arjan Erkel was kidnapped in Russia’s Caucasus region of Dagestan in August 2002, and freed 20 months later after a ransom was paid. The dispute turned on if the Netherlands had the right to reclaim the funds made available…