Watch: Police announce capture of kidnappers – AIM report

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Watch: Police announce capture of kidnappers – AIM report

7:33 CAT | 19 Feb 2020

Photo: Miramar

The Mozambican police in the central province of Manica announced on Monday that the businessman Issufo Satar, kidnapped at gunpoint on 8 February, has been released.

Speaking to reporters in the provincial capital, Chimoio, the Manica provincial police spokesperson, Mateus Mindu, said Satar was freed on Saturday after what he described as “intelligence work” between the police and the Satar family.

He said that the police have arrested five people believed to be members of the kidnap gang. Two of them were also involved in businesses in Chimoio – which they combined with criminal activity. They have a network of shops which the police believe are used for money laundering.

A further two gang members provided cars for the kidnapping, and the police have now seized these vehicles. The fifth, the only woman in the group, allegedly used her cell phone for contacts with the victim’s family.

Mindu said that no ransom was paid for the release of Satar, although the kidnappers had demanded “a large sum” (he did not say how much). He claimed that Satar was released after the criminals realised they had been cornered by the police.

Mindu said that the police have also arrested a woman who tried to take a 14 year old girl across the border into Zimbabwe. The police ascertained that she is not the girl’s mother, and she was taking the girl without the consent of her family.

“The woman has been detained and work is under way to discover the truth of this case”, he added.