By Jamal Adel.
Tripoli, 30 March 2014;
The manager of the Bank of North Africa in Obari who was kidnapped last Monday . . .[restrict]was released last night after a ransom was paid.
The amount was, however, a quarter of what the kidnappers had demanded to free Mohamed Al-Salheen.
“The kidnappers demanded a LD 600,000 ransom for releasing him, but finally agreed to release him for LD 150,000,” the brother of the kidnapped man, Ahmed Al-Salheen told the Libya Herald.
His brother had been beaten by the kidnappers, he said. “He confirmed to us that he has beaten on the first day that he was kidnapped, but there were no marks on his body”, he stated.
The kidnappers were believed to be local, he added.
The lack of security in the south of Libya has created a vacuum which has resulted in tribal conflicts, a growth in organised crime, Jihadist groups flourishing and international drugs and people smugglers operating in the area. [/restrict]
