Two men who created a fake profile of a young girl on an internet dating site have been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison by the Jönköping district court for kidnapping, robbery and blackmail, local media report.
The men, aged 19 and 20, reportedly used the fake profile to contact men who showed interest in teenage girls.
On different occasions they arranged dates with at least four men who were kidnapped and brought to a deserted barn outside Jönköping.
The kidnappers assaulted the men, threatening them with a knife and subjecting them to mock executions through Russian roulette games.
The kidnapped men, who are in their twenties and are from the Jönköping area, were told they would be reported to the police for pedophilia unless they paid their kidnappers money. They were forced to pay an estimated 70,000 SEK.
None of the victims are suspected of any crime, reported Swedish Radio.
