Saturday, August 26, 2017

Training Talent: DILIGENCE: Geneva, Switzerland


Talented investigators are, like analysts, forever learning.  

I describe some colleagues in this way:  They've reached the top of their craft and the top of their profession, yet, they are "like kids at Christmas", excitedly learning anew, incessantly. The monthly trainings with them fuel us with enthusiasm for excellence. 

This week, I had the privilege to lead talent, once again, in Geneva, Switzerland with "Diligence"; an investigative company led by experienced intelligence professionals described as:  

"Diligence is an Investigations Company specialising in complex cross-border inquiries. Our focus is to understand people and companies, whether as part of a due diligence before the fact or to help seek the resolution of a dispute. To gather information we read, talk, listen and watch."

With this, they hire the best and brightest, and they train, and train and train. 

Their clients' expectations are met in successfully completing complex investigations.  Their commitment to training reflects their commitment to success.  Their rich backgrounds and powerful resumes reflect the depth of their work, yet, as described above, leadership both prizes and reflects the same trait that I admire in colleagues:  childlike enthusiasm for learning.  

The CEO's presence in the training was both inspiring and empowering.  Young intelligence analysts and investigators get to witness, first hand, what excellence looks like, how it conducts itself, and what strength in humility sounds like.  As a client in need, this would give me confidence in the company to fulfill the pressing needs of complex cases.  

Many of the investigators in the seminar do not speak English as first language.  This allows for broad international investigations, cultural understanding in strategy, and necessary contributions to "team" critical for success.  Management prizes "team", not as a slogan, but as a necessity. 

Over the years, I have had some rather unsatisfying experiences with paid translators.  They are expensive, time consuming and do not understand the nuances of analysis, nor  its need for accuracy.  It is almost easier to use the block translation of google.  

With Diligence, analyzing an anonymous statement for a client  I was privileged to work with a well led,  dedicated team of professionals with essential backgrounds.  The input had one of whom shared his insight into the difference between formal and informal French, which proved crucial.  Another, due to his own training, was able to spot a Russian expressions used, which furthered us towards success.  This team was led by an intuitive expert with a legal background, pulling everything together for success.  

While detecting deception, the analysts' quick minds were already processing content analysis, while some were in the psycho-lingusitic profile.  Why?

Because she, in her mind, was preparing what questions a subject would need to answer. 

This is strategy. 

They seek to "know people."  

This is "due diligence" they offer, and lead by. 

Knowing and accepting human nature is the key to success in Statement Analysis as a tool employed in completed investigations.   Whether it be multimillion embezzlement or fraud, or security vetting, the insight into human nature, through the words chosen, brings results. Each complexity - layered aspect of an investigation is met by questioning and listening.  

It is a privilege and an inspiration to work with the professionals at Diligence. 

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Companies and individuals in need of investigations, forensics, business intelligence, security, assistance in international commerce, and other such intelligence gathering, would do no better than entrusting their needs and concerns to Diligence with offices in Geneva, London, New York, Moscow and Brazil.  

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Thursday, August 24, 2017

Lenny Dykstra Statement On Theft and Vandalism


When one is accused, we listen carefully for the denial, and using Statement Analysis techniques, we can learn the truth of what happened. 

Here is an accusation against former New York Mets star Lenny Dykstra.  

He is accused of trashing a hotel room, and attempting to steal towels and bedsheets.  He is also accused of stealing the receptionist's sunglasses. 

Dykstra spent 6 months in prison in 2012 for various forms of bankruptcy fraud and has been a known drug addict.  

Here, Dykstra gives a "statement analysis confession" of his activities and he allows for a psycho-linguistic profile to emerge. 













Dykstra, 54, checked into the Hotel ZE in Southampton on Friday for two nights with a young brunette.

Guests complained on Saturday about noise and marijuana smoke ini the $1500 per night hotel. 


Owner Zach Erdem said, “You could smell the marijuana throughout the hotel . . . They were ordering a big bucket of ice and extra towels every few hours. At 3 a.m. Lenny called down, and my brother went to the room, knocked, and he was invited in by the girl who was fully naked.”

He continued:  “When Lenny left, there were open bottles of vodka and Jack Daniel’s, stuff everywhere. The cleaner saw [drug baggies], she said it was the worst room she has seen. He left a suitcase and a bag behind and a note to ship them to his home. But there were no sheets, pillowcases and towels left in the room.”

Erdem called Dykstra’s pals to open his suitcase, which contained 14 towels, pillowcases and bedsheets. In a laundry bag were 10 pairs of ladies’ shoes, a marijuana pipe and the hotel soap dish. “On the way out he also stole my receptionist’s sunglasses, we have it on video.


Dykstra denied the claims, said media.  


Instead, we find a "statement analysis confession" of his theft:

He slurred, “What? No! I didn’t steal anything. The stuff is still at the hotel. There was no maid service, towels and sheets were piling up, so I put it all in a laundry bag for them. I did them a favor and they call it stealing? This is ridiculous. Was I doing drugs? Absolutely not.”

Besides issuing an unreliable denial, by using one unnecessary word, "still", he reveals his intent to steal. 

Of the sunglasses, he continued, “Nobody took anybody’s glasses. They are saying the room got trashed like Keith Richards. It’s all lies.”

Does Lenny believe himself to be a "nobody" even while name dropping a celebrity?

Surveillance video showed him stealing the glasses.  

Next, he addresses his own impotency:  

About that naked woman, he said, “I might have had 10 women in the room, might have had 15, might have had 20. Actually, the only thing I had in that room was my d - - k in my hand.”

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His statement without the NY Post editorializing:

What? No,  I didn’t steal anything. The stuff is still at the hotel. There was no maid service, towels and sheets were piling up, so I put it all in a laundry bag for them. I did them a favor and they call it stealing? This is ridiculous. Was I doing drugs? Absolutely not.”

1.  He answers the allegation with a question. 
2.  He answers "no"; whereas "yes or no" questions are "low stress" for deception. 
3.  We count every word after "no", as a need to explain that is related to deception rather than reliability.  
4.  The Reliable Denial must have 3 components and only 3:

a.  The pronoun "I"
b.  The past tense "did not" or "didn't"
c.  The allegation specified.  

"I did not trash my hotel room" is a good example. 
"I did not steal the sheets or towels."

Any deviation from this formula = not reliable. 

5. The additional word:  "still."

This is an unnecessary word and it is an indication of motive. 

"The stuff is at the hotel", itself, is unnecessary, but he offers it as proof that he did not steal it.  Yet, that is not what he said. 

He said, "the stuff is still at the hotel."

The word "still" is not only unnecessary, it addresses the element of time. 

Lenny's intention to have it sent to him is here admitted.  

6.   The Good Guy:

Lenny portrays himself as the "good guy" here, even claiming to have done them a favor.  

This shows the need of portrayal of good, which is weak.  

For one who did not steal nor intend to steal, there is no need to be portrayed good or bad:  there is a psychological "wall of truth" that is protective.  

Its absence causes him to need many words where just a short sentence would have sufficed. 

Analysis Conclusion:

Deception Indicated. 

Lenny Dykstra was intoxicated with both alcohol and drugs.  He stole sunglasses and he intended theft of hotel items.  He caused damage to the hotel. 

The profile that emerges:

Lenny Dykstra feels now like a "nobody", as he identifies himself as. 

His boasting of large numbers of women is not only a tangent (change the topic of information) but another confession of sexual impotency (see his last sentence). 

Where his mind produced these words in less than a millisecond of time, we find our accuracy.  


Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Training Schedule Reminder


For those enrolled:

The live training for August:  



Tuesday August 29th  9am EST 

Wednesday August  30th   10am EST

Thursday  August   31st    12Noon  EST

Linked invitation and statements sent out the night before....


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Update: Father Charged With Murder


UPDATE:  Father charged with Murder 
Here is the prior analysis  with update below. Note what police say is his motive compared to the original analysis from April 2017 

The father released this statement through his attorney:

I am desperate to find my son, Aramazd Jr., and need the public’s help. I hope and pray for the safe return of my only child, my namesake, who has been missing since last Saturday morning, April 22nd,”

It is interesting to note that the language of concern ("desperate") regards the father, himself.  

It is also interesting that the boy is his "only child" and "his namesake", with emphasis upon the father, himself. (in both places) 

These references point to the father, not the son.  

If the attorney wrote this statement, it would show the attorney's concern is about the father, not the son.  

Note this subtle point:   his son is not missing ("is missing") but time is lengthened through "has been missing..." 


In the statement, Andressian Sr. said he last saw his son on Saturday morning at Arroyo Park near his South Pasadena home.

“There has been a great deal of speculation regarding the timeline around his disappearance. The last time I saw my son was on Saturday morning, the 22nd, at Arroyo Park near my home in South Pasadena. After breakfast Aramazd Jr. wanted to go to the park before we were to meet his mother for a custody exchange at 9:00 a.m.

Note the use of the name "Aramazd Jr." and not "he" after already introducing him as "my son."  

Andressian Sr. was later found passed out at the park; the child was reported missing by his mother after the two failed up to show up at an arranged meeting point that morning, authorities said.

The passive voice employed here is of concern.  It does not begin with the pronoun "I":   


Missing 5-year-old Aramazd Andressian Jr. is seen in family photos released April 24, 2017, by L.A. County sheriff’s officials.
“In one moment, I was at the park with my son, and then I found myself waking up in Huntington Memorial Hospital hours later. I was told that a good Samaritan found me unconscious on the ground near my car, with young Aramazd nowhere in sight. I can only speculate that I must have been attacked in the park, given my unresponsive state and subsequent physical condition.”

Note no concern for the child, but lots of details about the father.  

Even with an attorney prepared statement, the focus is not on the missing child.  

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators suspect the father of a 5-year-old California boy who has been missing for two months killed the child after a family outing at Disneyland in a plot to get back at his estranged wife during a bitter separation, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said Monday.
The body of Aramazd Andressian Jr. has not been found and investigators would not release specific details of what led to the filing of the murder charge, but said there is strong circumstantial evidence in the case to prove the boy was killed by his father, Aramazd Andressian Sr.
"I am confident the evidence proves Mr. Andressian committed this horrible crime," Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said.
Investigators have been searching for the missing boy since his father was found passed out in a large park in South Pasadena on April 22. Sheriff's officials say the father had taken prescription pills and was found in a car doused in gasoline in what they say was an attempt to take his own life.
The boy was last seen leaving Disneyland with his father around 1 a.m. on April 21. Investigators believe Andressian killed his son a short time later and then drove about 145 miles (230 kilometers) later that morning to Lake Cachuma in Santa Barbara County. Sheriff's homicide detectives have searched the lake twice in the past few months, using dogs and a dive team to help in the search.
Andressian, 35, was arrested Friday by sheriff's homicide detectives and federal agents in Las Vegas because he was "becoming a flight risk," Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said. He's being held there on $10 million bail.
Andressian changed his appearance and had been socializing while living out of a Las Vegas hotel for 47 days, conduct characterized as inconsistent with that of a grieving parent, said sheriff's Lt. Joe Mendoza. Investigators also believe Andressian was planning to leave the U.S. and flee to a country that does not have an extradition agreement with the U.S., Mendoza said. Officials declined to identify the country.
Detectives believe Andressian killed his son in an attempt to get back at his estranged wife for their "tumultuous" relationship, Mendoza said.
Andressian's attorney, Daniel Nardoni, has said his client "is adamant that he never harmed his son Aramazd and is innocent of the charges." Nardoni did not immediately respond Monday to an emailed request for comment.
Andressian is expected to appear in court in Las Vegas on Tuesday for an extradition hearing and will likely be brought back to Los Angeles by the end of the week, prosecutors said.

"My heart is shattered and I will miss my son immensely each and every second of every day for the rest of my life," the boy's mother, Ana Estevez, said in a statement released by the sheriff's department.

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Law Enforcement in Training: Human Nature

             Deception Detection is difficult work. 

 If it was as simple as it is sometimes portrayed, or if reading a face expression sufficed, we'd all do it, and deception would be greatly hindered in its progress in society. 

A twitch of a leg, a hand over the mouth, a "micro expression", and so on, all represent various short cuts in one way or another, and as in the nature of short cuts, rates of success inevitably betray the employer of such.  

We live in a culture that may be viewed as the ultimate expression of narcissism, where our feelings overrule reason, our children are raised to believe that how they feel is more important than obedience, and where even science must be subordinated to emotion.  

Law Enforcement, however, does not succumb easily to folly.  

In Statement Analysis Training, the investigator/analyst begins by learning some simple principles of sensitivity in language, and moves on to detecting deception, content analysis, and on to giving a detailed profile of the subject (speaker/writer).  

In initially testing law enforcement on detecting deception, scores are often poor.  

Why?

Because professional  experience leads them to incessant contact with deception to the point where "everyone is lying."

Training over comes this prejudice with only initial resistance.  What brings success is when the law enforcement professional begins to recognize that outright lying is rare, and that in a statement where the subject is deceptive it is very likely to find 90% or more of reliable information (content).  

In short, they learn to let the subject's own words guide them to truth.  

Law Enforcement cannot afford error.  They have cases in which the initial analysis is going to be immediately tested against the evidence, the case development, the polygraph, the confession and so on. 

They must see accuracy to be convinced to study.  

After becoming quite good at detecting deception, they move into deeper and deeper content analysis.   This allows them to know the case details before the investigation even begins.  

Over and over they find that the deceptive suspect  "honestly" guided them to the truth. 

This is thrilling and fuels them to more and more study.  Their superiors are impressed and their solve rate moves up.  Promotions are granted.  Professional satisfaction is powerful. 

Then, they move on to the most challenging and exciting aspect of all:  psycho-linguistic profiling. 

This is where they learn four things about their subject from the subject's words:

1.  The subject's background 

This tells them if the subject is a male or female, white or black, young or old, and so on. This recognizes the impact of sex, race, culture, age (etc) have on language.  

2.  The subject's experiences 

This tells them what, for example, the subject has experienced in life such as work profession.  This recognizes that, for example, being in the military is going to impact language.  Prior crimes is another example, as this experience can enter language.  

3.  The subject's priorities 

Here is where we often find exactly why the subject wrote out his statement.  Was it to clear himself? Was it to confess?  Was it to steer the investigation away from the truth, or towards it?

4.  The subject's dominant personality traits 

This is where we see things as narcissism, or human indifference, and many other personality traits that show up in criminal investigations.  

Law Enforcement may struggle when it comes to initial deception detection but it is only until they learn how the deceptive suspect can and will guide them to the truth. 

But Law Enforcement does not struggle with psycho-linguistic profiling; that is, profiling based solely upon the language.  They grasp the personality traits well because they deal with them each and every day.  

Law Enforcement's experiences, daily, lead them to outscore their non-law enforcement counter parts in psycho-linguistic analysis;  they hold a very sober minded view of human nature, and are rarely self deceived by narrative. 

Why is this?

In part, their exposure to human nature means, even in rural communities, incessantly being in a position where they never know if they are going to have their lives threatened.  Few can grasp how this wears down the mind and the immune system.  Coping with this can be at times, even more challenging in locales where violence is not expected as it is in a high crime city.  In high crime/high violence locales, the element of surprise is lessened.  Both professionals must learn to cope in healthy ways.  

Predominantly, however, it is pragmatism that keeps them from being self deceived by narrative:

They cannot afford to allow emotion, belief, or ideology to over rule anything:  they have a case to be solved. 

In areas where leaders operate under the deception of "political correctness", the public often rails at law enforcement. 

It is mostly unjust. Rank and file investigators are often represented by those they do not consider to be "cops" but politicians, and the madness of such impacts them as it does the population. 

Investigators, like analysts, care for nothing but the truth.  The case demands it.  The interview is waiting; the evidence is guiding, there is a polygraph to review and...

there are confessions and convictions.  

In other words, they do not "play" analysis as if it was a game; they not theoretical.  

This is not to say that theoretical work is of no value; it has  value.  But its value is seen in its testings and results.  

Law Enforcement professional men and women do not have time to debate the latest politically correct wave of belief; 

they have crime to solve.  They have truth to find.   

They have little time and even less care for politicians.  They understand what psychological impact a successful theft has upon the thief, even when politicians do not.  

They know what desensitization to violence looks like, first hand, even if they do not possess the vocabulary of the DSM.  

Most professionals in law enforcement have extensive experience dealing directly with human nature, making fine sounding platitudes valueless to them.  

Professionals in training treasure the input of other professionals, as iron sharpens iron, they thrive on peer review of their work.  

One of the most common expressions I hear is,

"I wish I could do the same high level of work alone that I do in team analysis!"  

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Saturday, August 12, 2017

Chloe Ayling Kidnapping Statement

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Please note:  Media reported that this statement has been translated from Italian to English.



To understand the events I need to make clear a shoot was arranged in Paris.
I don't remember the exact day but I am certain it was at the time of terror attack in Paris.
The appointment (booking details) was that i would arrive and leave after one night.
It was arranged by my agent Phil Green way in advance as usual.
But the details were shared only a few day before, specifically that i needed to do a shoot for a motorbike advert.
The flight was paid for by the client who had paid the cost of the shoot to my agent.
My share was about £600 which I had received before leaving London.
The hotel was also paid for by the client, I think directly.
In Paris, I didn't need to pay for anything. I arrived in the morning by plane and came by taxi to Hotel Madeline in the Fifth Arrondissement.
The taxi had been booked by the people who had arranged the shoot.
They were waiting at the airport with a sign with my name.
After checking in, I walked around the area.
The shoot was fixed for the next morning.



The next morning I was having breakfast when the hotel put through a call from someone called Andre, the photographer, who said the shoot was cancelled.
He said there had been a theft and they had stolen the equipment.
I don't know where it was supposed to be because they were going to send a car to collect me.
I returned to London without doing the shoot.
Returning to the airport that afternoon, my mistake, I didn't take the car that had been booked for me.
Once I got to the airport I had to phone Andre and get him to pay the taxi.
Forty-five minutes later he arrived in a taxi.
It was the first time I'd seen him.
He's the same person who I came with today to the British consulate in the circumstances which I am about to get to.

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Polish-born Lukasz Herbam, 30, from the West Midlands, took her to the British consulate


Andre paid for my taxi. I took the plane and came home and carried on with my work as a model.
I usually do various shoots, sometimes going abroad four times a month, recently to Dubai.
Andre spoke to me only in English. Sometime after this the same photographer made a fresh appointment to be in Milan, which he said was a safer city.
There was no date fixed because he had to buy the equipment stolen in Paris.
Also, this time the payment for the shoot was the same as the last.
The date of my shoot was in Milan on July 11 which was sent to my email address (redacted) while I was in Dubai for work in May.
The only phone contact I had with Andre was that time in Paris.
The meeting place was told to me only a few days before leaving London.
I left alone from Gatwick on July 10, landing in Milan, and took a taxi to the hotel.
I paid for the taxi (myself) because I had already received the money.

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She was held inside a bag in the boot of a car after being injected with a drug(Image: Daily Mirror)
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She woke up in a pink body stocking

I went to my room in the hotel which had been paid for in advance.
I told my mother and agent I had arrived. I had no contact with Andre.
I spent part of the time in hotel and some time shopping. I had lunch and dinner on my own.
In the evening I stayed in my room. I only went to the gym in the hotel.
The next morning after breakfast at 8.15am I had reception call a taxi to take me to the appointment at 9am with Andre.
I took my luggage (with me) because I was not returning to the hotel.
I had the address where the shoot was going to be and also the number for Andre.
The directions I received from him were to get to the location and, if he was not there, I should go inside anyway.
When I arrived I had difficulty finding the studio, so I phoned Andre.
The man who answered said his name was Daniel and that Andre would arrive soon, but that I should go in anyway because Daniel was waiting inside.

She was only freed after kidnappers discovered she was a young mum of one(Image: Chloe Ayling / Instagram)
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Chloe claimed she was held by members of the Black Death who wanted to auction her as a sex slave

The studio was in a one or two floor building and I don't remember if it had a name or sign outside.
I remember there were two glass doors with dull aluminium covers. I found the door ajar, so I went in.
I don't remember anything about the room except that on my right there was a panel obstructing the view from outside.
So, I went toward the door and there was a sign saying 'Studio'.

Statement entry by detectives - At 1.40pm the witness (Miss Ayling) said her statement could put her in danger and that the people who kidnapped her had threatened her if she talked to the police. She said that (they) had told her "neither you or your family must speak derogatively about the Black Death". Interview suspended to allow her to recover emotionally.

Miss Ayling's statement then continues:
Back to July 11, I had my phone in one hand and suitcase in other.
The door to the studio was closed and before I entered person from behind put a hand on my neck and one on my mouth stopping me from screaming.
Both hands had black gloves.

She claims the kidnappers advertised her for £270,000 on the Dark Web(Image: Chloe Ayling / Instagram)

A second person, who also came from behind, (came round to) face me.
The second man had a balaclava on, so I could only see his eyes through two holes and his mouth.
He was of normal height, athletic build, muscular and he also wore black gloves.
He was dressed in dark clothes. His clothes meant you could not see his arms.
The man behind me continued to restrain me, forcing me to lift my face (up), while the one in front gave me an injection in my right arm.
I don't know how he got to my arm because I wearing a long sleeve leather jacket.
I felt like I didn't have enough air because the man holding me from behind was stopping me from breahing.
The didn't say anything or talk among themselves.
While being attacked I dropped what I was holding on the floor.
When they injected me, my arm was uncovered. Maybe they had taken off my jacket, but I don't remember.

She claimed she earned the trust of her kidnappers but feared for her life

The attack happened in front of the door of the studio, in a narrow stretch of corridor.
In the circumstances, I lost lucidity. I don't know whether as a result of lack of air or the injection.
Then I lost consciousness, because when I came around I was only wearing my Chenille pink body and the socks I am wearing now.
I realised I was in the boot of a car. Someone had taken off my jacket, my jeans - which were light coloured with dark marks - and my Adidas shoes.
The total number of people who participated in harming me up until this morning when I came to the consulate is five.
From when I was kidnapped to when I was freed today i have only seen the faces of two people.
One of these is the guy who came to the consulate this morning, and who in the first instance, I did not identify as one of those responsible in front of consulate (staff) and the police.
Under those circumstances, I told those present, that once i had become free I stopped a passerby to use their phone to call the only person I knew in Italy and whose number I knew (off) by heart.
I provided this version of events only out of fear of revenge.

She claims she was held for six days on the first floor of an apartment

The man who was with me at the consulate - after my kidnapping at the studio and after two men took me to an apartment by car - was the only one who held me prisoner for entire duration of my kidnapping, who watched over me, stopped me from going out or escaping, threatening me that they would kill me if I did so.
From the moment I was kidnapped and held in the flat, the man who today took me to the consulate took off my handcuffs and the tape from my mouth, leaving just the handcuffs (attached to) my ankles which held me to a bedside table preventing me from moving freely or (any) possibility of escaping.
The place where they held me was an apartment with two rooms. I was forced to stay on the floor of one in a sleeping bag.
As I said, when I regained consciousness, I got the impression of being in the boot of a car.
I realised someone had put cuffs on my wrists and ankles. On my mouth there was tape.

She said she shared a bed with one of her kidnappers but nothing sexual happened

They had put me in a bag closed with a zip. There was only a little hole allowing me to breathe.
I tried to open the hole. The boot was the kind where you have access from the front of the car but there is a cover (which) when closed stops you from seeing (its) contents from (the) outside.
(While) trying to open the bag, I put my hands outside the bag making the cover move and attracting (the) attention of (the) kidnappers.
The car stopped, two people got out and opened the boot.
I briefly saw the face of one of them, the driver. I didn't see the face of the second person.
The driver is not the man who brought me to the consulate.
They forced me to put my hands (inside) the bag and closed it. Neither spoke to me.
After this first stop, we carried on for 45 minutes, when we stopped for a second time because of my crying and moving (around) in the back.

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An advert for Chloe said to list terms and conditions - including her vital statistics 34DD-25-35

One of the men wearing a balaclava got out of the car and gave me some water to drink from a plastic bottle straight into my mouth.
He took the handcuffs off and tried to put them behind my back which I objected to.
He said If I didn't agree I would get a second injection.
The threat scared me and I agreed to be cuffed. When he closed the cover he put a suitcase on top. (There was) a tiny hole in the bag so I could see the partly opened suitcase was empty.
After travelling for another 45 minutes, we stopped again, because I was crying out and was stressed. I don't know if they spoke much because the radio was on full volume.
During the third stop, a man got inside the boot and crouched (down) in there with me. He had his face uncovered.
He reassured me. He spoke good English. This was not the same person who came with me to the consulate.
He was about 40-years-old, much taller than me, pale skinned, thin. He had brown hair and dark eyes with features which could be Polish. My mother is Polish so I recognise the features.
We travelled for a short time, when we stopped again and they took off the handcuffs from behind my back at my insistence, but (were) telling me they would have to go back on once we arrived at (our) destination.
After another 30 minutes the car stopped. They put on my cuffs and put tape on my mouth forcing me to stay inside the bag, took me out of the boot and carried me to entrance of a building with two floors.
Here they threw me out of the bag, and took off the cuffs which were on my feet, and took me inside an apartment which was on the upper floor.
The man who got into the boot did not wear gloves. The car was navy blue and long, probably a station wagon.
After they threw me out of the bag, I found myself dressed only in a pink body, knickers and grey socks.
The two men, the one that was with me in the boot and the driver, took the cuffs off my feet to allow me to walk and go up the stairs.
The driver still wore a balaclava, while the other one didn't.

Chloe Ayling says she earnt the trust of her kidnappers - one of whom she claims fought for her freedom(Image: Chloe Ayling / Instagram)

I didn't see the house well when I arrived because I was inside a bag and I only got out when I was at the entrance, but I saw it yesterday when at about 6.00pm they let me out for the first time.
I saw the building this morning before we left but it was still dark.
It was a two floor building, white, with a door on two wooden posts, with a small garden at the front with a bit of grass and paving.
There is a wooden bench to the right of the entrance looking at the building from (the) outside and a little window that was always closed.
The property has a low fence about 70cm (high) without a gate, just a gap.
To reach the house you have to walk along a bit of grass and some stone slabs.
There is a balcony on the first floor, (made of) iron I think, with two wooden doors.
This property was only inhabited by the people who kidnapped me.

Model Chloe Ayling was allegedly told she'd be killed if she talked about what happened(Image: Daily Mirror)

Next to the building, on the left, was a small wooden building, like a barn. We were in a rural area on top of hill and yesterday, when I was allowed (out) onto the balcony for the first time, I saw forests and mountains quite nearby.
When we left the property this morning, we were on a rough road for about seven minutes, going downhill.
Going back to the 10th of July, the man who was with me in the boot accompanied me on the order of the other man, the driver, upstairs to the bathroom.
When they took the handcuffs off my hands, I still had the tape on my mouth. I had the impression that the driver was the one in charge, (as) the other man was nicer to me.
When I came out of the bathroom, they put the handcuffs back on and a new stretch of tape on my mouth.
Then they took me to a room where there was a chest of draws on the right and a single bed on the left.
It was (now) about 2pm, they made me sit on the floor on top of a blue sleeping bag.

She recognised a Polish connection, she said, as her mother is Polish(Image: Daily Mirror)

The two men attached both the cuffs on my hands and (my) feet to the legs of the chest of drawers, totally immobilising me.
The two men spoke in a language I don't know and left me alone in the room.
After a few minutes the man with the uncovered face came and sat next to me on the floor and said to me in English 'That they had spoken to their boss on the phone who was furious that they had taken the wrong person'.
He explained to me that the boss, after Paris, had written an email saying that I should not be taken and that they had misunderstood it to mean (that) I should be taken.
I shouldn't have been taken because the boss had seen my Instagram where there are photos showing I am a mother with a small child, and this is against the rules of the organisation.
This was Black Death.

Chloe claims she was handcuffed for the first couple of days of her imprisonment

(Over the coming) days they led me to believe the organisation has 20 hierarchical levels and that my kidnappers were on the lowest level.
And the organisation carried out crimes for payment from drugs to murder operating on the Dark Web.

Detectives then asked: "How many other people where involved in your kidnap?'
Her statement continues:

Apart from the first three, there was also a fourth person who used the nickname Andre who is the guy who accompanied me today to the consulate.
During my imprisonment the kidnappers referred to each other (by) using two letters.
The guy who came with me today is called MD. Here is a business card MD gave me which has an email address which I was supposed to contact to get information, which I personally had to give to mass media to publicise Black Death kidnapped girls are sold from prices starting at $300,000.
But to tempt them to pay they ask for a sum (roughly) similar to $75,000.

(Image: JIM BENNETT)

MD, who said he was level 12 while the others were level 1 or 2, was the de facto boss and angry with the others because they had kidnapped a mother.
MD arrived at the place after a couple of hours and, although he was against my kidnap, (he) explained that (my) imprisonment would not end because the organisation had (already) published two photos of me on the Dark Web which were taken while I was unconscious.
He showed me them a few days later on a Black Death website. In one of the photos you can see a flyer of the organisation with contact details and also the link to my Instagram page.
The photos verified that I was in the hands of the organisation and some users had already expressed interest in the sale, although they noted I was a mum.
MD was always in the apartment, day and night. Sometimes he went outside because the signal was not very good.
As soon as he arrived he took the handcuffs off and the tape off my mouth, leaving my feet attached to the chest of drawers.
MD slept in the other room, while from the second night (onwards) he took the cuffs off my feet, assuring me that sooner or later I would be freed, so (I) had no need to (try to) escape.

Chloe Ayling, 20, was travelling to Italy for the first time(Image: JIM BENNETT)

From that moment (onwards) I always slept in his room, sharing his double bed, and he was the only person who stayed with me.
I didn't see the others again. MD never molested me sexually, or asked for sexual favours, because Black Death prohibited or severely punished members who touched kidnapped girls.
MD let me move around the apartment freely but always (only) on the first floor, preventing me from going outside.
Yesterday he allowed me to go (out) onto the balcony and (he) assured me that he was personally trying to have me freed and that he had contacted my modelling agency to pay a $300,000 ransom.
MD asked me to provide three names of people I know who could provide the ransom money which I did.
While imprisoned I was able to wash, to have a shower. Every day, MD gave me clean underwear and a T-shirt.
Even though he offered me something to eat every day, the food was not packaged and I didn't want to eat anything until Friday because I was worried and didn't trust what he gave me to eat.
On Friday evening he gave me chocolate, and I was dying of hunger, so I ate it.
I had drunk water in sealed bottles which I trusted.

She was told she would have to pay $50,000 within a month of being set free(Image: JIM BENNETT)

On Saturday and Sunday, having by then created a trusting relationship with MD, I finally accepted a plate of meat and vegetables which he gave me.
Over these days, apart from the day of the kidnap, it was only us two in the house. I never went outside because he prohibited it.
MD yesterday told me that I would soon be freed, as he had paid $250,000 of the sale, while the rest, $50,000, I would have to pay back within a month of (being given) my freedom.
If this didn't happen, I risked death.
Yesterday he showed me an email which confirmed what he had said, saying that this email had also been sent to me.
He told me that my freedom would come with four precise conditions set out in a letter from Black Death.
Once I had gone back to UK, I must ask for case to be dropped and not to respond to any questions or provide information of any kind.
Neither me or my family could speak badly of Black Death.
'You and your family must promote the organisation through interviews.'
The payment of $50,000 must be paid within a month by online payment.
If any of the conditions were not met, I risked death because they would trace me at any moment.
MD set the alarm for 4am and he said he would take me in a (Bollore) Bluecar (a popular Italian make of electric car) to the consulate and leave me 15 minutes away to avoid being seen or filmed on CCTV.
He said he would call me a taxi which would take me to consulate. He would abandon the car and go away.
Before we went out, he gave me the clothes I am wearing now and the trainers he bought me yesterday.
He said he had changed his mind and would personally take me to the consulate and present himself as my friend.
We went to the consulate by car without stopping and arrived before it opened at 7am.
We went to have breakfast in a bar near the consulate and waited for it to open. We went in at 9.20am.
I remember on Saturday or Sunday he showed me a Polish ID document, which he said was false but that he used to rent the photo studios.
He said he had logistical bases all over Europe.
I was afraid for my life, especially when I was in the car and when I saw (the) empty suitcase.
Right after I was kidnapped, I seriously feared they would kill me.
Even now I fear for my life, especially in light of the conditions explained to me by MD about Black Death, because I have told you these things and because MD says the organisation has 10,000 members.