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MLB Smuggling and Extortion Ring

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Cuban baseball stars smuggled, kidnapped and threatened - Nov. 22, 2016

To ensure the players would never leave on their own, they were surrounded by guards carrying pistols and forced to turn over their passports, according to investigators.

A player "was told not to flee or he would be shot," prosecutors said in the latest court filing.

The smugglers also separated the players from their families, giving them leverage in case a player escaped. When one player did manage to flee, Nacho's henchmen called the player's wife and told her they would kill him. The player returned.
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