May 5, 2016: “”Rendition,” an emerging practice among high-end retailers and luxury goods companies, involves the abduction of wealthy, high-profile customers who are reportedly detained at baroque, unidentified duty-free camps, often indefinitely and without access to courts, attorneys, or financial advisers. “There are no clear numbers on how many have been taken in this way,” explains Brett Horgaus, an ACLU attorney and head of the organization’s human trafficking task force. “We estimate that as many as 2-3 thousand ultra-wealthy consumers are being held a half-dozen secret sites worldwide. The stigma of these abductions, and the secrecy among the families of those who are targets, lead us to suspect that this estimate may be low.”

…[A] recent account from a purported former detainee includes tales of being forced to shop in stress positions, dancing to exhaustion in clubs playing music at high volumes, and being incessantly coddled by teams of ominous, hooded figures. “For more than 6 months all I heard was ‘spend, spend, spend,'” explains Frank Fetch, the son of a wealthy Minneapolis publishing family. “They wouldn’t let me sleep. I’d start to nod off, and there’d be another handler with an exclusive Manolo Blahnik sneaker or a tray of cashmere Q-Tips. It was exhausting, mentally draining.”” (futurefeedforward)