Phantom Goldman Banker Is Bait in Swiss Trader’s Kidnapping
- Trader once worth $96 million was held for six days near Paris
- ‘You were programmed to be killed,’ kidnappers told him
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When Yomi Rodrig got into the old, dirty-looking car parked on a quiet street in a western Paris suburb on a rainy evening in January 2015, he had an uneasy feeling something wasn’t quite right.
“But then I told myself ‘it can’t be,’” the 63-year-old Geneva-based trader said in a Paris courtroom during the trial this month of his kidnappers. “That’s how it started.”