The 17-year-old Mauritian boy who was kidnapped in Iran has been found. His kidnappers have been arrested. This was announced by Alan Ganoo in Parliament on Tuesday. He said that the Iranian police were able to find the missing Mauritian on Monday. The young man, who is in the custody of the authorities, will soon be repatriated. The case came to light after the young man’s relatives were arrested at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam airport. They had more than Rs 4 million in their possession. They explained that the teenager had been kidnapped and that his captors were demanding a large sum of money. The young man had gone to Dubai for a wedding. How did he end up in Iran? That has yet to be determined.
According to his parents, he had gone to attend a wedding ceremony in Dubai. Subsequently, an Iranian national had contacted his parents to demand a large sum of money as ransom for their son to return to Mauritius. The parents, the minister continued, reported the case to the Mauritian police and sought the assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The victim’s phone indicated that he was in Sistan and Baluchistan, a strategic crossroads converging with Iran and Pakistan, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested the assistance of these two countries to find the teenager.
