Security Forces Free Kuwaiti after Weeks of Abduction
The Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau released on Friday a Kuwaiti national, who was abducted in the eastern Bekaa region in January, announced the bureau in a statement.
It said that the security forces carried out a security operation in the town of Taanayel in the Bekaa to free Mohsen Barrak al-Majed, who was abducted from his Qab Elias farm on January 17.
The Intelligence Bureau revealed that the kidnappers had sent a video to the victim's family in Kuwait, demanding a ransom of 1.1 million dollars for his release.
Following investigations, security forces succeeded on Friday in determining the identity and location of the assailants in Taanayel.
It carried out an operation in the area, where it freed the captive and arrested the perpetrators, who have been identified as three Lebanese brothers and a Palestinian.
Another accomplice, a Syrian, was arrested in the South.
They detainees confessed to kidnapping Majed for ransom.
They added that they had held him captive in a room on the roof of the three brothers' Taanayel residence.
ISF chief Ibrahim Basbous and Intelligence Bureau head Imad Othman later paid a visit to Majed after his release, congratulating him on his safety.
Kuwait News Agency said that he was released without ransom and that he will return to his country where further investigations in the case will be carried out.
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