Forget Bernie Madoff. Meet James Amburn, 56, a financial advisor who runs the
investment firm Digitalglobalnet, who was kidnapped, beaten, and tortured by
four middle-aged investors after Mr. Amburn lost £2 million of their savings in
Florida real estate investments. According
to yesterday’s Daily Mail, the four kidnappers, Roland K, 74, Willy D, 60, Gerhard
F, 63, and Iris F, 66, attacked Mr. Amburn with a Zimmer frame (that’s a walker to us
Americans) outside his west German home before binding him with duct tape
and then keeping him in a cellar for four days where he “was burned with
cigarettes, beaten, had two of his ribs broken when he was hit with a chair leg
and chained up 'like an animal.'”
Eventually, Mr. Zimmer, who was naked except for his underwear, was
rescued by forty armed officers.
(HT: Felix
Salmon)