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An entrepreneur dedicated to the management of cryptocurrency portfolios and the sale of luxury vehicles based on the Costa del Sol has lived this week what may have been the worst hours of his life. Three individuals – two Greeks and an Albanian, arrested this Wednesday by the National Police in the tourist city of Benalmádena – had allegedly kidnapped him and asked for his ransom a whopping one million euros. In the quick resolution of the case, only five hours, it was key for the Police the photograph of the exterior of the house that the victim sent to a friend in a mistake of his captors.

One of the mountains located by the National Police in the house. NATIONAL POLICE

The operation that has allowed the release of the victim in good health, except for some bruises, and the arrest of three individuals of 35, 36 and 54 years of age for their possible link with the kidnapping, began late Wednesday morning when an acquaintance of the businessman retained appeared at police stations and alerted the agents of what was happening. He explained that he had received a call from Budapest (Hungary) in which they told him that a mutual friend was illegally detained in Spain and asked him to urgently bring the facts to the attention of the Spanish police.

The caller from the Hungarian capital had received several photographs and audios from the victim's mobile phone in which they urged him to pay one million euros as a previous and indispensable step for his release. Among the photographs sent by the alleged kidnappers to the friend of the kidnapped man was "a disturbing image" in which the young businessman was seen looking at the ground with a gun pointed directly at his head.

But fortune was on the side of the victim who did not hesitate to take advantage of an oversight of his captors to send a snapshot in which the exterior of the place where he was detained against his will was observed. The image, taken from a window inside the property, would later allow Spanish law enforcement agents to identify the enclave in question.

Given the "seriousness of the facts", explained sources close to the case, a large integrated police device was quickly launched, in addition to air means and a negotiator, by fifty agents that has also included ground troops as specialists of the Special Security Operational Group of the National Police (GOES), of the Drugs and Organized Crime Unit (UDYCO). of Prevention and Reaction (UPR) and Scientific.

After locating the property, an independent and luxury villa with three floors in Benalmádena, police officers surrounded the house and waited for the right moment to enter and rescue the illegally held businessman. Once inside the property, already safe the victim and arrested his alleged kidnappers, the agents found two loaded firearms -one of them provided with a silencer-, cash -5,000 euros and 1,200 dollars- and a room conditioned with plastics in which there were several saws.

The three detainees are in custody at the Provincial Police Station of Malaga and what happened is in charge of the Court of Instruction number 1 of the Malaga town of Torremolinos, as confirmed by police sources.

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