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Oct 04, 2011 News
A Venezuelan-based fisherman who had been feared kidnapped has been found alive and well, some hours after relatives received a $1M demand for his safe return.
Police ranks found Rasheed Bridgemohan, 36, called ‘Convict’, lying in a clump of bushes near the Grove, East Bank Demerara Squatting area at around 20:30 hrs last night.
He was subsequently taken to the Grove Police Station.
Kaieteur News understands that investigators have ascertained that Bridgemohan, who disappeared from his aunt’s Farm, East Bank home on Friday, had left on his own free will, and that the kidnapping was staged.
According to sources, Bridgemohan, who resided in Venezuela and the North West District, had travelled to Guyana on Wednesday with the intention of taking a son and teenaged daughter back with him.
However, he reportedly told investigators last night that he became depressed after his daughter refused to accompany him. This reportedly prompted him to stage his vanishing act.
The fiasco began around 21:30 hrs on Friday, when Bridgemohan left his aunt’s home after telling her that he was gong to have his wife’s name tattooed on his arm.
His aunt, Bibi Majeed, told Kaieteur News that relatives became worried after he failed to return, and began to inquire about his whereabouts to no avail.
Around 14:30hrs yesterday, the aunt received a call from an unidentified male who claimed that Bridgemohan had been kidnapped. The caller told the aunt that a $1M ransom was to be deposited “near the circuit” if they wanted the ‘kidnapped’ man to be returned alive.
Relatives received three more calls from the ‘kidnappers’, who refused to allow them to speak to the ‘victim’. The family subsequently contacted the police.
Police have had to deal with several fake kidnappings in recent months, including one case in which two teenage girls turned up safely after claiming that they were abducted by a gang of men.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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