Wealthy pensioners 'tortured financial adviser'
The Daily Telegraph
Published: June 24, 2009, 22:47
Berlin: A group of wealthy pensioners has been accused of kidnapping and torturing a financial adviser who lost £2 million (Dh12.11 million) of their savings.
The pensioners, nicknamed the "Geritol Gang" by German police after an arthritis drug, face up to 15 years in jail if found guilty of subjecting German-American James Amburn to the alleged four-day ordeal.
Two of them are said to have hit him with a Zimmer frame outside his home in Speyer, western Germany, before he was bound with duct tape, bundled into the boot of an Audi A8 and driven 300 miles to a home on the shores of a popular holiday lake in Bavaria.
During his alleged confinement in an unheated cellar, Amburn, 56, claims he was burned with cigarettes, beaten, had two ribs broken, was hit with a chair leg and chained up "like an animal".
The incident began on Tuesday last week as he made his way home after enjoying a drink with a friend. Amburn, the head of an investment firm was allegedly attacked by two men ages 74 and 60 as he entered his apartment building.
The Daily Telegraph
Published: June 24, 2009, 22:47
Berlin: A group of wealthy pensioners has been accused of kidnapping and torturing a financial adviser who lost £2 million (Dh12.11 million) of their savings.
The pensioners, nicknamed the "Geritol Gang" by German police after an arthritis drug, face up to 15 years in jail if found guilty of subjecting German-American James Amburn to the alleged four-day ordeal.
Two of them are said to have hit him with a Zimmer frame outside his home in Speyer, western Germany, before he was bound with duct tape, bundled into the boot of an Audi A8 and driven 300 miles to a home on the shores of a popular holiday lake in Bavaria.
During his alleged confinement in an unheated cellar, Amburn, 56, claims he was burned with cigarettes, beaten, had two ribs broken, was hit with a chair leg and chained up "like an animal".
The incident began on Tuesday last week as he made his way home after enjoying a drink with a friend. Amburn, the head of an investment firm was allegedly attacked by two men ages 74 and 60 as he entered his apartment building.
