Hong Kong: Police take a suspected member of a gang of kidnappers (centre) through a crime scene reconstruction at a market on Tuesday. The suspect is the only one of six people to have been arrested after they allegedly kidnapped an heiress to a clothing fortune on April 25, freeing her in exchange for a $3.6 million ransom.—AP

HONG KONG: Chinese police nabbed five remaining suspects who fled from Hong Kong with millions in ransom money after a kidnap, reports said on Tuesday, a day after the arrest of another suspect in the case.

The five were all arrested by mainland authorities in the Chinese province of Guangdong — two at a hotel in the city of Shenzhen on Monday morning — the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported. “All of them have been arrested,” a source told the SCMP.

Hong Kong Police said that one suspect was arrested at Lo Wu, a border checkpoint connecting the city with China. However, it was unclear whether authorities had recovered the HK$28 million ransom payment.

Police in Hong Kong embarked on a massive operation to hunt down the six suspected kidnappers after the release of 29-year-old Queenie Rosita Law.

The search came after they allegedly fled the city with a ransom payment of $3.61m, paid by Law’s family members.

Law, who is the granddaughter of late textiles tycoon Law Ting-pong and was held for at least three days, said in a press conference that she was not injured.

The kidnappers had initially demanded up to HK$50m for her release, but settled on HK$28m.

The southern Chinese city of seven million people is for the most part considered to be safe, with violent crimes in 2014 falling almost 10 per cent from 2013.

Robberies also fell 38.2pc to 309 cases in 2014, compared to figures from 2013.

Published in Dawn, May 6th, 2015

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