Reports from a Mexican news outlet is that a former UDP politician was victim to an attempted extortion and threat earlier this week in Chetumal.
It reportedly happened on Tuesday at Hotel Fiesta Inn. Reports are that sometime around 2 am on Tuesday the former Belizean Minister got a strange call. The person on the other end of the line demanded a large sum of money. The ex-Belizean Minister, who apparently had links with the coast guard in Belize, gave them a distress call alerting them of the situation. The Coast guard in turn made contact with their counter parts in Mexico. A few minutes' later two heavily armed patrols from the Marine Infantry Battalion along with approximately a dozen men arrived at the hotel. They secured the former politician, who was immediately escorted out of the hotel and taken back to the Belizean border. No name is mentioned in the newspaper and while we did hear a name of a former UDP Minister of State, we could not confirm. We'll keep following up.
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