Here in Blighty, paying a ransom is legal per se....... .....but making payments to a sanctioned country or a terrorist organisation is very illegal (as I susp

Here in Blighty, paying a ransom is legal per se....... .....but making payments to a sanctioned country or a terrorist organisation is very illegal (as I suspect it is in most of the world). For this reason, any organisation obeying the law will refuse to pay the ransom.