Jail for Austrian who blackmailed Bacardi heiress

An Austrian man who threatened and blackmailed a member of the Bacardi family, famed for their rum empire, was sentenced to 21 months in jail in Vienna.

Raphael Abarth, 57, sent threatening emails and left voice messages in an attempt to extort €110,000 fom Monika Bacardi, the widow of the great-grandson of the founder of the Bacardi business, Facundo Bacardi Masso.

Abarth claimed he had set Bacardi up for marriage with her wealthy husband to-be in Monaco decades ago, Austria Presse Agentur reported. 

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