Three charged over kidnapping of Sahil Saeed in Pakistan
Three people charged in Spain over kidnapping of a five-year-old British boy Sahil Saeed in Pakistan
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By Darren Estwick. |  |
Friday, 19, Mar 2010 08:48
By Richard James.
Three people have been charged in Spain over the kidnapping of five-year-old British boy Sahil Saeed in Pakistan earlier this month.
The trio, two Pakistani men and a Romanian woman, were each charged with one count of kidnapping a minor and were remanded in custody.
The suspects were originally arrested earlier this week after Sahil was finally released, almost two weeks after he was snatched while on holiday with his family.
Spanish police claim the group were involved in ordering and collecting the reported £110,000 ransom paid by Sahil's father Raja Naqqash Saeed to secure the child's release.
Surveillance officers followed the group from Paris, where the alleged transfer of money took place, to Spain and they were finally arrested near Tarragona in the north-east of the country.
Two other people are also believed to have been arrested in France. The judge presiding in the initial proceedings in Spain on Thursday said the international police effort had been a covert operation and as such details of the investigation would not be released.
Sahil was finally reunited with his mother Akila Naqqash on Thursday evening, after flying back to the UK from Pakistan with his father.
The five-year-old, clearly tired from his ordeal, was briefly presented to the waiting press outside their family home in Oldham by his understandably jubilant mother.