Police rescue migrant kidnapped for ransom in Male’ City

Maldives Police Service has rescued a Bangladesh citizen who was kidnapped for ransom in Male’ City last Wednesday.

Maldives Police Service issued a statement this Thursday morning identifying the victim as a 29-year-old migrant worker from Bangladesh.

The kidnappers had called a friend of the victim and demanded for MVR 40,000 as ransom which they asked to be handed over at a location in front of Kangaroo Kids.

Police officers had intervened to arrest the man – identified as a 42-year-old male from Bangladesh – who went to the agreed location to collect the ransom money.

The suspect, when asked by the officers for the whereabouts of the kidnapping victim, had directed them to an alleyway off Nikagas Magu from where they found the victim – who was beaten up and had two mobile phones, his keys and his necklace stolen off him.

Maldives Police Service reports that further questioning pointed at the involvement of seven Maldivian citizens in the kidnapping – all of whom had fled the scene.

The case is under investigation by Serious and Organized Crime Department of Maldives Police Service.