Framed in Colombia
The email scam that landed a pensioner in prison
In September 2021, Peter Baumgartner received an email promising him a mysterious inheritance of several million francs, with a trip to Colombia. "In the email, it was announced: you have won a free trip to Bogota, all expenses paid. It was our thirty years of marriage, and so I said to myself: great, we will be able to go to Bogota", he explains. After a week there, an 'agent' asked them to carry a package home for a friend. It turned out to contain over 3 kilos of cocaine. Peter's wife Elisabeth was arrested and put in a women's prison in Bogota, while Peter flew home. In March Elisabeth stood trial. Convinced by a lawyer to plead guilty for a reduced sentence, she has received a sentence of five years and four months in prison and a fine of 140,000 dollars. Peter remains free in Switzerland.
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