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Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-07-04
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[01] Ten arrested for Panagopoulos kidnapping
[01] Ten arrested for Panagopoulos kidnapping
Ten people have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of
shipowner Periklis Panagopoulos and were led before a public prosecutor
on Saturday. The case was solved by the Attica police, who were
scheduled to make an announcement on Saturday afternoon.
Commenting on the arrests on Friday night, Alternate Interior Minister
Christos Markoyiannakis said that the kidnapping was a serious case
that the police had been working on very methodically for the past six
months and that the investigation was now at a "crucial stage".
The 74-year-old shipowner had been abducted in January this year and
was released unharmed after his wife paid the kidnappers a ransom. The
shipowner was the second wealthy Greek businessman to be the victim of
a kidnapping in the space of six months, after the case of northern
Greek industrialist George Mylonas that was kidnapped in June 2008.
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