The story of the Italian businessman of 64 years, Claudio Formenton, has already gone around the world, because of how a lie led him to live the worst experience of his life.
It was in November of 2021 when Claudio told him He informed his wife and family that he would make a trip to Africa, exactly to the Ivory Coast, to do community service on that continent, something he had been doing for a long time. This time he mentioned that he would help a group of missionaries.
The businessman’s trip would last a week. But what his family did not know was that in reality, the man had traveled to meet a woman named Olivia Martens, with whom he had been in contact on the Internet in recent months and who had allegedly become his lover. .
Once he arrived at the airport in the Ivory Coast, Formenton would have boarded a taxi that was already waiting for him and from that moment on, his odyssey began.
Formenton was taken to various places until he reached a hotel, where he was received by a group of criminals who notified him that had been kidnapped. The Italian was deprived of his liberty for a couple of days and the kidnappers contacted her family and they notified the authorities.
Finally, a group of agents broke into the establishment where the victim was being held, who they managed to free on 2 from December. The police in the Ivory Coast indicated that Claudio had been deceived by these criminals, who created a false profile of Olivia Martens and with it, captured his attention.