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Three days after 23 men working for Canada's Talisman Energy were kidnapped by FARC rebels with 22 rescued, President Santos warns he will expel multinational companies who pay ransom money for kidnapped employees' releases.
Talisman Energy denied paying a ransom and said it always followed Colombian law.
Some of the Talisman employees reported hearing of a 5,000 million pesos/ $2.62m deal allegedly made by the company with the FARC.
"We can't allow anyone to keep feeding these bandits, because the only thing they're going to do with the money is create more violence and insecurity," said Santos.
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