This place is f***ed - Athlete kidnapped and robbed in Rio

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Michael Oxford
This place is f***ed - Athlete kidnapped and robbed in Rio image

New Zealand jiu-jitsu athlete Jason Lee has been kidnapped and robbed in Rio by men wearing police uniforms.

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Lee was threatened with harm if he didn't get into a car with a group of 'police' being before forced to withdraw a large sum of money from an ATM.


"I’m not sure what’s more depressing, the fact this stuff is happening to foreigners so close to the Olympic Games or the fact that Brazilians have to live in a society that enables this absolute bullshit on a daily basis," Lee wrote on his Facebook stage.

"I was threatened with arrest if I did not get in their private car and accompany them to two ATMs to withdraw a large sum of money for a bribe.

"This place is well and truly f***ked in every sense of the word imaginable."