{"id":28545,"date":"2016-12-07T01:36:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T01:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=28545"},"modified":"2016-12-07T01:36:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T01:36:59","slug":"kidnappers-want-r10m-for-bangladeshi-businessmans-safe-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=28545","title":{"rendered":"Kidnappers want R10m for Bangladeshi businessman’s safe return"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bangladeshi Businessman Mustapha Goolam was abducted outside his store Food Town in Lotus River. Picture: Supplied<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cape Town (6 December 2016) : Another Cape Town businessman has been abducted.Now police have formed a crack squad to find out if a syndicate is targeting foreign businessmen for their money.<\/p>\n

Hours after a Bangladeshi shop owner was snatched outside his shop on Sunday night, his kidnappers demanded R11 million ransom for his safe return.<\/p>\n

Police say Mustapha Goolam, 38, a married father of two, was busy locking up his shop Food Town, located between Zeekoe Road and Fifth Avenue in Lotus River, when he was abducted by two men.<\/p>\n

The suspects were driving a gold Toyota Corolla.<\/p>\n

Witnesses claim Goolam put up a fight.<\/p>\n

A passerby said: \u201cThey were closing the shop when the criminals came up to him and took him and he was fighting with them and then his cellphone fell to the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shop assistants inside the store say they heard Goolam\u2019s desperate cries for help, and then the car speeding away.<\/p>\n

Police are still searching for businessman, Naushad Deshmukh Khan, 46, who was abducted outside his clothing shop, Khans, in Hadji Ebrahim Crescent by five armed men last month.<\/p>\n

Naushad called home a few days later, telling his family that his kidnappers demanded \u00a320 million (R338 million) for his safe return.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Hanif Loonat, Cluster Chairperson of the Mitchell\u2019s Plain Community Policing Forum said there appears to be a gang targeting \u201cforeign businessmen\u201d in Cape Town.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the organisation BIP (Bangladeshi Indian Pakistani) has been formed to protect businessmen from criminal elements.<\/p>\n

Goolam is a committee member of BIP.<\/p>\n

Loonat said: \u201cI was at the scene until 3am and the kidnappers called (Goolam\u2019s) family demanding a ransom of R11 million and then brought it down to R10 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe crack unit which was formed by Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Khombinkosi Jula has five detectives specifically tasked to find out who these persons are and why.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a syndicate coming from amongst the Pakistani, Chinese, Indian and Bangladeshi communities and it is about power and even protection money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Andre Traut confirms the matter is being investigated.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to call SAPS on 08600 10111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cape Town (6 December 2016) : Another Cape Town businessman has been abducted.Now police have formed a crack squad to find out if a syndicate is targeting foreign businessmen for their money. Hours after a Bangladeshi shop owner was snatched outside his shop on Sunday night, his kidnappers demanded R11 million ransom for his safe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n