Mariana van Zeller
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He was told he was a retired truck driver, former military.
He was told that he had gotten, his wife had just died.
He was told he had gotten an inheritance and that the inheritance was in Europe.
His wife had connections to families in Europe.
So it was totally believable according to him.
But in order to get the inheritance, he would have to do a pit stop in Africa.
But they would pay for everything, his flights, his hotels, everything.
So it was a free ride to go to Africa, pick up the documents, and then take them to Europe.
And in the bag with the documents were some chocolates that he was to take to Europe to the people he was meeting.
And as he's in the airport about to board his flight to Europe, he was stopped by the authorities, and he was carrying five kilos of heroin inside these chocolates that he was completely unaware.
And I completely believe he had no idea.
So he's sent to prison.
He's given one-day trial, 17-year sentence.
He's almost 70 years old, so he's probably going to die in prison.
And it turns out he wasn't the only American there.
There was another American from California and a Canadian, all victims of the same scam, and within two, three days, all three of them.
And this is just one high-security prison in Mozambique out of all prisons around the world.