37 Extortionive Kidnappings in 2025 Mark the Return of the ‘Millionaire Walk’ in Bogotá

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Raise your hand in the street to take a vehicle at night and not remember anything else. Awakening, at best, with an empty bank account, clothes of another person and in an unknown place. Remembered with terror in Bogotá, the ‘millionaire walk’, a mode of theft and kidnapping in which criminals, on board a vehicle, drug their victims and retain them while emptying accounts and cards, seemed like past history. However, in 2025 it had a rebound th…