Where is your evidence that the property owned held them hostage for $11,000?
So they payed up on the spot at gun point and were allowed to leave the country? I thought they were apprehended on the plane and held in Brazil until they coughed up the additional $11,000.
Don’t harass me about which entity extorted what. Find somebody else to split hairs with. The final extortion was at least $14,000—probably more. If you like it that way, then Rio is your kind of town.