Kidnapped businessman rescued – three foreigners arrested
Police have rescued a businessman who was kidnapped in Helderkruin.
The police have rescued a businessman who was kidnapped at a mosque in Helderkruin and arrested eight kidnappers, including three Tanzanian nationals in Johannesburg.
According to a statement sent to the Roodepoort Record by Brigadier Athlenda Mathe, the businessman was kidnapped on July 5 and was rescued at a house in Lenasia on July 31.
The police’s anti-kidnapping task team has been working on the case and two other suspects linked to this kidnapping were arrested.
During another raid led by police intelligence, drugs worth R300m, believed to be crystal meth, were seized at a hotel in the vicinity of Eastgate shopping centre, and two apartments in Fourways, and four suspects have been arrested.
National Commissioner of the South African Police Services General Fannie Masemola says police are working hard in dismantling the work of transnational organised crime syndicates.
