Police in Istanbul had freed two Bulgarian nationals, who have been kidnapped by a group of Turks for ransom.
The news was announced Saturday by the Bulgarian news agency BTA.
Three people have been arrested and police are still on the lookout for two more.
According to police officials’ reports, on December 13, a woman, identified as Emiliyana S. called the Istanbul police from Bulgaria to inform her husband, Bulgarian businessman, Krasen D., and his driver, who is an ethnic Bulgarian Turk, have been kidnapped. The abductors asked for a ransom of EUR 1 M.
The investigation found out the victims were held in a villa in an Istanbul suburb.
The police seized illegal guns and drugs. Two of the five abductors managed to escape in a car with Bulgarian license plates, which was later found abandoned.
Krasen D. told the Turkish police he arrived with his driver in Istanbul on December 11 for business. On the next day, the kidnappers invited him for talks involving textile trade, but upon arrival the two were locked in the villa.
Krasen, who was able to conceal a cell phone, managed to call his wife in Bulgaria.