The Portuguese-Mozambican businessman Ebraim Seedat, kidnapped from his residence in the city of Chimoio, Manica province, in central Mozambique, returned home on Tuesday after three weeks in captivity, a police source told Lusa.
Ebraim Seedat, 60, was abducted on July 7 by a group of three armed men at the entrance of his residence, on Rua da Zambia, in a privileged area of the city of Chimoio, and reappeared in the early hours of this Tuesday, explained Mateus Mindu, spokesman for the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM).
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The businessman returned to his family life on Tuesday morning and is in good health,” said Mateus Mindu, without giving more details about the circumstances of his reappearance.
“A lot of information remains confidential and we will give details in due time“, he added.
Speaking to Lusa, a domestic worker at the victim’s residence said that the businessman “he was pale” Y ‘Visibly traumatized’.
Some Mozambican cities, especially provincial capitals, have been affected again since 2020 by a wave of kidnappings, mainly targeting businessmen or their families, especially of Asian origin.
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In the past week three people were arrestedincluded two policemen and a prison guardin relation to the attempted kidnapping of the son of a well-known businessman in the city of Chimoio, confirmed at the time Lusa Amed Bolacho, spokesman for the National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) in Manica.
Only in Chimoio, is the sixth abduction case in the last three and a half yearsthe victims having returned home without police intervention and after paying ransoms in most cases.
In a crime assessment, presented in early May, the Attorney General of the Republic of Mozambique said that the Kidnapping crimes are on the rise and criminal groups have cross-border ramificationsmaintaining cells in countries like South Africa.
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According to Beatriz Buchili, there was 14 criminal proceedings for kidnapping in 2021, against 18 in 2020but there are other cases that escape official accounting, and in most cases the result is unknown.
In November 2021, the Police of the Republic of Mozambique launched the formation of a mixed force to respond to this type of crime, a group of agents who will be trained by Rwandan specialists.
Source: Observadora
