Overseas nationals working companies in Japanese Cape dwell in worry of a kidnapping syndicate demanding ransom.
A vicious legal syndicate is seemingly terrorising foreign-run small enterprise operators within the Japanese Cape.
The legal band of South African males is alleged to comb via giant components of the Japanese Cape, together with Alice, Dimbaza and Qonce areas, the place they kidnap enterprise house owners after which demand tons of of hundreds of ransom cash from their households or drive them to pay a R2 000 month-to-month “safety payment”.
Since January, two international nationals have been kidnapped in Alice. Their households and associates had been pressured to pay R400 000 and R370 000 respectively to safe their protected return from the gangster.
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