BBC xin wen 100 pian News Item 48

BBC新闻100篇 News Item 48
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Song BBC新闻100篇 News Item 48
Artist 英语听力
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[00:00.00] In Germany, if you think your financial advisor
[00:02.86] has been giving you bad advice
[00:04.23] and messing up your investments,
[00:05.91] you can complain to the regulators,
[00:07.71] you can go to the police.
[00:09.33] But in Bavaria, one group of pensioners stands accused of
[00:13.19] employing a much more direct method
[00:15.55] of registering their dissatisfaction.
[00:17.36] They're on trial for kidnapping
[00:19.72] their financial advisor and holding him hostage.
[00:23.01] Four senior citizens, aged between 63 and 79,
[00:27.43] had invested nearly three and a half million dollars
[00:30.36] in the US property market
[00:32.16] and lost it all in the sub-prime mortgage meltdown.
[00:35.33] They'd concluded that the man who'd handled the investment
[00:38.75] should now reimburse them.
[00:40.37] According to prosecutors, last summer
[00:43.11] the pensioner posse plus one accomplice
[00:45.72] abducted the financial advisor outside his house,
[00:48.77] tied him, gagged him, put him in a box
[00:52.00] and transported him in the boot of a car
[00:54.68] 450 kilometres to a lakeside retreat.
[00:57.47] He claims to have spent four days
[01:00.90] locked in the cellar there and to have been tortured.
[01:03.39] After agreeing to their demands,
[01:05.31] the prisoner was allowed to send a fax
[01:07.24] to Switzerland arranging payment.
[01:09.29] He concealed the phrase
[01:11.22] "call the Police" in the text
[01:13.40] and the alarm was raised.
[01:14.95] Soon after a crack team of commandos came to the rescue.
[01:18.87] On the opening day of the trial,
[01:21.05] the 74 year old alleged ringleader of the gang
[01:23.85] avoided using the word "kidnap".
[01:26.09] He said he and his co-defendants
[01:28.02] had only wanted to treat their guest
[01:29.88] to a couple of days holiday in Bavaria.
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