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Kidnapping has been around for thousands of years, and yet so far no jurisdiction managed to criminalize paying the kidnapping ransom.

• blue1 9y ago
  In Italy in the event of a kidnapping all the assets belonging to the kidnapped person and his/her family are immediately frozen by the law. As a consequence, paying the ransom effectively becomes a crime.
  • desdiv 9y ago
    I stand corrected. Thank you for the correction.
  • bgun 9y ago
    Are there statistics on before/after this law was implemented? It seems that kidnapping would become massively underreported as a result.
    • blue1 9y ago
      Kidnappings in Italy are now much rarer than they used to be (see: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonima_sarda> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonima_sarda>). I have no idea in what measure it depends on the asset-freezing law.