Man held cousins hostage for 8 months in Oraiokastro
Police in Thessaloniki on Saturday were investigating claims that a 58-year-old man had been holding two of his cousins hostage for eight months and forcing them to give him money.
According to local reports, the 58-year-old was arrested on Friday night after a 47-year-old man telephoned police and told them that he and his 48-year-old sister were being held against their will at a house in Oraiokastro, a small town near Thessaloniki.
A patrol car was dispatched to the scene and officers rescued the two siblings and took the 58-year-old into custody.
Officers were investigating the veracity of the claims of the two siblings, who accused the 58-year-old of keeping them tied up, threatening them and swindling cash out of them.
According to a police investigation, the 58-year-old abducted the two siblings in July of last year, forcing them into a car with the help of his 23-year-old daughter and another accomplice, and transferred them to the building in Oraikastro.
Since then, the siblings, claim, the 58-year-old kept them there, occasionally taking the 47-year-old with him to various bank branches to transfer money from the latter’s account to that of him or his daughter.
