The Global Advisor Kidnap & extortive crime | July 2025
Control Risks’ Casework April to June 2025
Kidnap & ransom In the event of an acute crisis – be it kidnap for ransom, extortion, threat, illegal detention or a missing person – effective professional advice is critical. Control Risks is the leading global crisis response consultancy, assigned exclusively to Hiscox assureds. We consistently assist clients with more incidents each year than any other consultancy, giving Control Risks’ consultants an unparalleled level of relevant and recent expertise. Our Response team is immediately available to deploy anywhere in the world. We also have 42 offices worldwide and can provide immediate on-the-ground support to clients in the event of an incident. Control Risks maintains the only team of analysts in the industry that is dedicated to tracking kidnapping-for-ransom and other extortive crime trends globally. The team provides critical operational analysis to support consultants deployed to advise on the resolution of the kidnaps, detentions, threats and extortions affecting Hiscox policy holders. Using the world’s largest commercial database of kidnaps and extortion – currently containing details of more than 88,000 incidents – and their understanding of local security dynamics, the analysts can provide tactical information for a given location, such as the average length of cases and typical concessions, as well as the identities of groups operating there and their motivations. The analysts carry out research and support incidents in multiple languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Farsi and Arabic.
The team also supports Hiscox policy holders with preventive kidnap and extortion analysis on the Global Risk Data online platform (brought to assureds by Hiscox as a benefit of the policy), and through bespoke consulting analysis tailored to assureds’ individual exposures.
Location of Control Risks’ cases
Number of cases per country
19 United States 12 Mexico 4 Brazil
Breakdown of cases
47% Threat
26% Threat Extortion
3 Ecuador, UK 2 Italy, Kenya 1
21% Kidnap
4% Detention
Australia, Colombia, France, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, Sweden, Venezuela
2% Missing Person
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