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The Lebanese judiciary opened an investigation after a Saudi citizen was lured to Lebanon and kidnapped.
The Saudi man was lured by a “gang” to Lebanon to buy property, but when he arrived in the airport on Sunday, he was kidnapped and led to the Lebanese city of Baalbek in the Beqaa Valley.
According to the judicial official, the Saudi citizen is believed to be in Al-Sharawneh neighbourhood on the outskirts of Baalbek.
A ransom has not been issued, the official said, but the Saudi was likely taken “with the aim of financial extortion.”
In April, AFP reported, a gang in Lebanon kidnapped an Egyptian accountant in Baalbek. He was rescued by the army two weeks later.
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