| Others are kidnapped and killed to extort lucrative ransoms from their families. |
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| The hostages were freed in batches several months later after several million dollars in ransoms were paid. |
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| The protection money and ransoms governments or insurgents extort from oil companies do not prolong the violence. |
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| Seven-figure ransoms in used bills easily fit in a standard-size briefcase. |
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| Dogs are being snatched from families and ransoms of hundreds of euro then demanded for their safe return. |
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| All but one have now been released, but only after millions of dollars in ransoms were paid. |
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| In 1993, Colombia's government briefly made paying ransoms illegal, but there was an outcry from victims' relatives. |
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| And people who are worth something are more likely to be kidnapped and held for large ransoms. |
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| Taxes, ransoms or customs dues were sometimes paid in spices and in France it was once what litigants paid to the judge. |
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| Also, the quarry itself seems to be a good place to hide victims while ransoms are demanded or to dispose of bodies if the ransom is not paid. |
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| A U.S. Navy official who tracks piracy issues says as long as shipping companies are willing to pay ransoms, than piracy will continue. |
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| It is a horrific and inconvenient truth, but paying ransoms to free hostages invariably worsens the problem in the long-term. |
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| The payment of ransoms is often done in Nairobi, Mombasa and European capitals, London in particular. |
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| Kidnapping is an industry in Colombia, and the main businessmen in this morbid human trade are the guerrillas who use the ransoms to fund their war. |
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| Eventually, the kidnappings became so common that they chucked ransoms for prisoner exchanges. |
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| He went on to state that if ransoms were paid, no one should be in danger. |
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| Neither the U.S. nor the U.K. pay ransoms for hostages, as many European countries do. |
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| Despite the efforts of middlemen and charities to raise money to provide ransoms, they were still very difficult to come by. |
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| Regular fundraising for ransoms was undertaken generally by families and local church groups, who generally raised the ransoms for individuals. |
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