Claudio Formenton, the 67-year-old Italian businessman who was duped in the Ivory Coast, Africa.
A 67-year-old Italian businessman fell into the trap: he went to the Ivory Coast, in Africa, to meet an alleged girlfriend he had met online. There he was kidnapped for three days and had to be rescued by the local police, in collaboration with Italian agents. I live by a miracle, he is already back in Italy.
Claudio Formenton has a marble processing company in Fosso, a town of 7,000 inhabitants near Venice. But one day the man, grandfather and father of a family, met an alleged man Olive Marten From the web. The chat goes, the chat arrives, in November the man agrees to go to Abidjan, in West Africa, to meet his new love in person.
Arriving at the airport, A taxi driver sent by Olivia is waiting for him at the terminal with a sign with her name on it, who tells him she will take him to the place where he will meet the attractive young woman. But the taxi deviates from the planned route and Claudio Formenton disappears. For three days, the Italian businessman does not answer calls and messages from friends and family, who are increasingly concerned about the situation.
Claudio Formenton fell into the trap and went to the Ivory Coast.
Alarmed, they decide to contact the Italian police to report the disappearance of Claudio Formenton in the Ivory Coast. The investigative group of the Carabinieri is mobilized to solve the enigma of the entrepreneur’s absence, and through the geolocation of his mobile phone they manage to find him.
The investigators, coordinated by the prosecutor Erminio Amelio, managed to detect that he was in a hotel in the city of Bonoua, after having previously passed through a couple of hiding places. As for the hotel room, where he was being guarded by a kidnapper, local law enforcement arrived to free him.
The man has a marble company in Venice.
Stefano Marrone, lawyer of the entrepreneur Formenton, asked that his privacy be respected, because he seeks only rest and does not want to make statements. Even his sister, in the company, asked the journalists for respect and silence: “We are a family that has always worked and earned everything with hard work and sweat”.
Formenton told police he was not mistreated and did not pay the ransom.
Formentón was rescued by the police.
Now the entrepreneur will have to explain his trip to the Italian authorities, who have had to make a considerable effort to bring him back to his country.
Investigators are convinced that behind the alleged Olivia Martens is a gang that has surely dropped other older men with money into their nets.
The anger of an Italian priest
Formenton had earned a reputation among his compatriots as a serious industrialist, with a constant and generous social commitment, which led the parish priest to appoint him extraordinary minister for the distribution of Holy Communion. In short, he was a model entrepreneur for his neighbors: everything was work, family and parish help.
Indeed, in his community, Formenton said he was on a humanitarian trip to Ivory Coast to see a missionary friendFather Mattia Mellis, who works at the Yopougan mission, and spends a week with him.
But now, returning to his city, Formenton found a rarefied climate. The parish priest, Claudio Savoldo, has decided to revoke the office of ‘minister of Communion’ from the entrepreneur, according to the Venetian newspaper ‘Il Gazzettino’. “Given the revelations that have been made about him, his post in the parish will be permanently revoked,” said Savoldo.
Source: Clarin
