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Before his arrest, he was also plotting to kidnap a wealth Russian dissident.

Libya has emerged as the North African country where migrants face the greatest challenges, including kidnappings and abuse at the hands of smugglers and militias, International Organization for Migration chief Amy Pope told AFP.

In six of the calls to Santa Ana police, residents described what they were seeing as kidnappings.

The next seven years were marked by the forced disappearance of an estimated 20,000-30,000 people, many of whom were kidnapped and taken to clandestine detention camps to be tortured and killed.

The court was told other messages showed he sought "banking information of European residents" and discussed kidnapping a billionaire for the purposes of extortion.