{"id":6646,"date":"2026-02-27T16:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=6646"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:42:17","slug":"two-britons-arrested-in-benidorm-for-staging-fake-kidnapping-to-extort-money-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=6646","title":{"rendered":"Two Britons arrested in Benidorm for &#8216;staging fake kidnapping to extort money&#8217; | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/26\/02\/1920x1080\/skynews-istock-benidorm-spain_7176736.jpg?20260227123211\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Two British men have been arrested in Benidorm for allegedly staging a kidnapping to demand a ransom of \u20ac830 (\u00a3728) from a relative.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish National Police said the men, aged 37 and 51, were detained inside a hotel in the city in Alicante, southwestern <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/spain-6015\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Spain<\/strong><\/a>, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they sent a relative in the UK several videos in which one of them appeared bloodied and was being threatened with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>Benidorm police officers launched an investigation in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/interpol-10765\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Interpol<\/strong><\/a>, the British Consulate and the Kidnapping and Extortion Unit of the General Police Headquarters in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>During a raid of the hotel, officers saw two individuals matching the descriptions of the suspect and victim leaving the premises.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two men were conversing in a cordial and friendly manner,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/pakistan-war-latest-open-war-with-afghanistan-as-strikes-launched-across-country-13512816\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan in &#8216;open war&#8217; with Afghanistan<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ukraine-war-latest-russian-attacks-kill-one-and-injure-at-least-22-others-in-ukraine-12541713\" target=\"_blank\">Suspected Russian drone intercepted off coast of NATO country<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pair were arrested on charges of fraud and impersonating a kidnapper.<\/p>\n<p>The man allegedly posing as the kidnapper was also charged with identity theft because he had registered as a guest under a false name, police added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/two-britons-arrested-in-benidorm-for-staging-fake-kidnapping-to-extort-money-13512942\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two British men have been arrested in Benidorm for allegedly staging a kidnapping to demand a ransom of \u20ac830 (\u00a3728) from a relative. Spanish National Police&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}