And in the past year 5% of Salvadoreans suffered an extortion attempt, often orchestrated by mobile phone from prisons.
Like much of the rest of China, Chongqing is booming, but, along with the economy, crime has risen, especially extortion and racketeering.
Rivals, too, have particular reason to want to see the back of them, as the Zetas’ kidnapping and extortion attracts more attention from the police.
Security, extortion or insurance?
The troops have failed to prevent a surge in kidnapping and extortion.
Along with Gary Steven Krist, she was wanted for the kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle, and for extortion.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
So what’s really going on is extortion pure and simple.
In some cases they may have been genuinely mistaken, but in others the claims seem to have been blatant extortion.
The gunman had been identified as Rolando Mendoza, a former senior police inspector who was sacked in 2008 over allegations of robbery, extortion and drug-related crimes, he added.
He might also have celebrated the jury deadlocking on two charges of attempted extortion.
A source who leaked information about the letter to the Procuratorial Daily Newspaper said Zhu, writing just before the killings, had accused Lingling court officials of attempted extortion.
He wanted the return of his job, which he had lost after accusations of extortion and robbery.
Some 16% had suffered extortion and 13% kidnappings.
But faced with the reality of what is happening, namely raw extortion on the part of a party that, after all, only controls one house of Congress, it would have been totally justifiable.
Across Mexico, local businessmen worry about extortion and kidnapping - while foreign investors hesitate.
The idea was dreamt up by an expatriate Indian physics professor from the University of Maryland who, travelling back home, found himself harassed by endless extortion demands.
Now, the hitman and his "victim" face extortion charges and the woman who hired him charges of making threats to kill.
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