MIA arrests 10 individuals for kidnapping a citizen from Tbilisi

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has detained 10 members of a criminal group responsible for kidnapping a Georgian citizen in Tbilisi.

The arrested individuals face nine to 14 years of imprisonment.

The investigators said that the criminal gang kidnapped a Georgian citizen born in 1995. The father of the kidnapped individual has reported to the police that the criminals demanded a large amount of money from him as a ransom by phone. Otherwise they threatened to kill his son.

The Georgian media reports that the amount of the demanded ransom was about three million GEL (more than 1.1 million USD).

The police found the kidnapped individual in a village in Imereti in western Georgia and returned him to safety.