Overview
- Police arrested Monniky Fraga, 27, in Brazil in connection with what investigators call a staged kidnap-for-ransom nearly a year after her viral claims.
- Detectives say evidence points to a plot arranged with at least one perpetrator to boost her social media following.
- Fraga’s husband, Lucas, was assaulted and robbed during the incident and, according to police, believed the abduction was real.
- Authorities say she now faces accusations of blackmail, perverting the course of justice, and wasting police time, while her lawyers seek house arrest citing young children.
- Investigators link at least three other men to the case, with one already in prison for unrelated crimes, one reported murdered before arrest, and another searched in Várzea Paulista over alleged ransom money.