A New York man who headed a group billing itself as a nonprofit dedicated to preventing child abduction and trafficking was arrested on Tuesday on charges of defrauding the parents of children nabbed by international kidnapping rings, authorities said.

Peter Senese, 49, founding director of the I Care Foundation, was arrested by the FBI in Brooklyn and has been charged with wire fraud.

A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan said Senese told parents whose children were victims of international abductions that he could locate them and return them to the United States. He promoted his group through the websites www.stopchildabduction.org and www.petersenese.com and falsely claimed that his organization had former members of the U.S. Army's elite Delta Force at its disposal.