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A Kitty businessman who was held in connection with the kidnapping of 21-year-old Rorhema Dookie was released from police custody yesterday.The man was released on station bail and is expected to report to the Brickdam Police Station tomorrow.The businessman was detained at his home on Wednesday morning after police obtained additional information during their probe. His arrest came a day after police detained several suspects during an early morning raid in the squatting communities of Tucville and Stevedore Housing Schemes.Three persons, Tyrone Solomon, Franz Prince and Sivon Warner have since been charged and remanded to prison.A senior police source told Kaieteur News yesterday that although the businessman was implicated in the kidnapping of Dookie, the evidence was not sufficient to charge him.The businessman was previously implicated in a Canadian visa scam in which he and another Canadian-based Guyanese allegedly ripped off several persons after promising to secure study visas for them.The Canadian-based Guyanese was charged but the businessman remained free although there was evidence of his involvement in the scam.At least two of the victims have taken private legal action in the High Court to recover their money from the businessman.Rorhema Dookie, whose father owns the popular Natoo’s Bar at Lamaha and Pike Streets in Kitty, was abducted on August 26 in Thomas Street shortly after leaving classes at the Business College in Thomas Street.Dookie and her boyfriend, Joel Oudkerk, were sitting in Oudkerk’s car when three men emerged from a dark coloured Toyota AT 212. After dragging Oudkerk from his car and hitting him on the head, the gunmen allegedly forced Dookie into their vehicle and escaped.The young woman was reportedly blindfolded and taken to a house, but was left untied.Someone using Dookie’s mobile phone subsequently contacted the young woman’s parents and demanded $40M for her release.But in a bizarre twist,Olivier Giroud Arsenal Jersey UK, Dookie was reunited with her family the following night after a woman allegedly pulled the victim from the house where she was being held.At the time, the kidnappers had reportedly left Dookie unguarded. |
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