Jiu-Jitsu athlete name Jason Lee from New Zealand was kidnapped by armed men in military police uniforms and was forced to withdraw cash from two separate ATMs in Brazil.
He posted on his Twitter account, “What did you guys get up to yesterday? I got kidnapped. Go Olympics! #Rio2016”.
Jason Lee, who has been living in Rio for the past ten months, but not participating in this Rio2016 Olympic, which begins on 5 August because jiu-jitsu is not an Olympic sports.
He aired a status on social networking sites about kidnapping, later which was deleted due to some unknown reason. “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,” he explained.
While police claimed that he was breaking the law by driving without his passport, and made him drive the wrong way down a highway before transporting him into an unmarked car. “These guys have pulled me over, they have weapons. I'm not in any position to negotiate” Lee said, according dailymail.co.uk
Meanwhile Australian Olympic team has recently refused to move their athletes into Rio Olympic Village because Last month, their sailor Liesl Tesch and team official Sarah Ross were threatened with a gun and robbed before a race meet in Rio de Janeiro.
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