TAIPEI, Taiwan – Prosecutors say a businessman from Taiwan who was kidnapped in China by a team of Chinese and Taiwanese gangsters has been freed.
Taiwan and China cooperated to free the businessman, who Taiwanese prosecutors say was kidnapped in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou in early January and held for ransom.
The District Prosecutors' Office in Kaohsiung city says the businessman was rescued by coast guard personnel on an uninhabited Taiwanese islet Tuesday. Two Taiwanese were arrested in connection with the case.
Taiwanese officials were alerted to the case by Chinese police after the victim's family complained the man was not released despite their wiring ransom money to a Hong Kong bank.
