She despised the Chechen leaders installed by Russia: they looted reconstruction money, she said, using torture and kidnapping as a weapon.

她对俄国扶持的车臣领导嗤之以鼻，她指责他们打着苦难和绑架的幌子掠夺重建资金。

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To make money, they (never mind who) could cheat, torture people, and kill people.

为了钱，他们可以去欺骗、可以去折磨人、可以去杀人……。

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They would increase the money and torture them.

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For a long-only money manager, going to work daily is a form of waterboard torture.

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As the torture continued Coats extracted enough information to realise that Lynda had been handing over some of his money to Mr Glen, the property developer she had scammed.

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