Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian police said on Tuesday they had busted a Pakistani gang involved in kidnapping, news agencies reported on Tuesday.
Police said that four Pakistani nationals were arrested who seized their own countrymen for ransom from the victims’ relatives back home.
City police chief Zulkifli Abdullah said that the four men, aged between 22 and 35, were arrested on Saturday, following a tip-off.
“As a result of our monitoring, we saw four Pakistani nationals acting suspiciously and followed them to a flat downtown where we found three other Pakistanis locked in the home and who were bound and gagged,” he said.
He said initial investigations showed the kidnappers had demanded a ransom of 620,000 ringgit (204,317 dollars) for the release of the three men.
He said that the group used to kidnap their countrymen who came to Malaysia to trade and to do business and sought ransom from their relatives back in Pakistan.
He said the four would be charged in court shortly after police complete their investigations into the men.
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