Watch: Mozambique police confirm fourth kidnapping victim this year – Rizwan Adatia

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Watch: Mozambique police confirm fourth kidnapping victim this year – Rizwan Adatia

2:17 CAT | 05 May 2020

Photo: Miramar

Mozambican Police (PRM) said on Monday that businessman and philanthropist Rizwan Adatia was threatened with a firearm when he was abducted on Thursday in Matola, on the outskirts of Maputo.

Rizwan Adatia was driving during the day on a highway in the area of Bairro do Fomento, when his car was blocked next to a traffic light, reported witnesses heard by the police, who today revealed details of the occurrence in a press conference.

After being blocked, one of the four kidnappers pointed a firearm at him, forcing him to get out of his car.

“So far we have no information on what led to the kidnapping,” said Juarce Martins, head of PRM Public Relations in Maputo province.

Martins said the police have opened all operational lines to find Rizwan Adatia and arrest the perpetrators of the kidnapping, in order to make them criminally responsible.

The police, he continued, are in constant contact with the family of the businessman and philanthropist and no ransom demand has yet been made.

Rizwan Adatia is a native of the Indian coastal city of Porbandar and leads the Maputo-based Cogef group with 35 wholesale supermarkets (cash & carry), 190 stores, four industrial units and over 3,500 employees in nine African countries.

The entrepreneur has created a foundation with his name (Rizwan Adatia Foundation), a non-profit organisation focused on reducing inequality in education, health and economic development in communities in Asia and Africa.

His foundation participates in 18 strategic partnerships benefiting 740,700 people in Africa and Asia.

The abduction of Rizwan Adatia is the fourth confirmed and under investigation in the country by the Mozambican authorities since the beginning of 2020.