Kidnapped SA businessman Mohsin Patel reunited with family after R100,000 ransom paid
July 25 2013 - Mohsin Patel was reunited with his family on Tuesday after a 22-day nightmare that began when two men, dressed as policemen, forced him at gunpoint into their vehicle outside a Himeville supermarket.
His family paid R100000 of the R1-million ransom demanded by his kidnappers. Police arrested seven (white? the picture of a handcuffed white man seems to indicate this) men in Port Shepstone, and in a Durban flat, in connection with the kidnapping.
KwaZulu-Natal Midlands police yesterday said Rahaman's family in Bangladesh had received a ransom demand for R100000.
The businessman, who owns a supermarket, was flagged down while driving along a Pietermaritzburg road on July 15 and kidnapped.
Police spokesman Lieutenant Joey Jeevan would not confirm that the police were investigating the possibility of a syndicate targeting businessmen for ransom - but she said that a link between the kidnappings could not be ruled out.
"The police team that solved the Patel kidnapping is now working on the Rahaman investigation," she said.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/07/26/kidnapped-men-found-alive
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