Kidnapped businessman rescued by police
Police have rescued a business man and arrested eight kidnappers, including three Tanzanian nationals in Johannesburg.
The businessman was kidnapped on the 5th of July 2024 at a mosque in Helderkruin, Roodepoort. He was rescued at a house in Lenasia on Wednesday, July 31.
The SAPS anti-kidnapping task team has been working on the case and arrested the first two suspects a week earlier.
“On Wednesday, 31 July 2024 intelligence led the multidisciplinary team to a hotel in East Gate and two apartments in Fourways where they arrested six suspects and seized drugs suspected to be crystal meth worth R300 million,” police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe stated.
This is not the only case. In the last six months, 12 business owners and six students who had been kidnapped for ransom, have been rescued.
Recently, the police have rescued a business owner of Portuguese descent, through the intervention of the Special Task Force (STF) unit.
In early July, two kidnapped victims at an informal settlement in Crystal Park, were rescued by police in a similar operation led by the STF.
General Fannie Masemola is expected to soon the police operations underway throughout the country to clamp down on all forms of criminality.