Swiss blackmail ‘gigolo’ jailed

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A Swiss man was sentenced to 6 years in jail today for blackmailing some of Europe’s richest women. Helg Sgarbi’s most lucrative target was a member of the family has majority ownership of Germany’s BMW car company. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the scoop from Beate Wild, a reporter with S�ddeutsche Zeitung.

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