Chi­nese busi­ness­man Ken­neth Lou, who was kid­napped while mak­ing de­liv­er­ies on Sat­ur­day, has been re­leased. Lou, of San Fer­nan­do, told po­lice of­fi­cers he was re­leased in Pi­ar­co around mid­night on Sat­ur­day. Im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter his re­lease Lou vis­it­ed the po­lice sta­tion, where he made a re­port and was ques­tioned by of­fi­cers of the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Squad.

Lou was tak­en to hos­pi­tal for a med­ical ex­am­i­na­tion, but told in­ves­ti­ga­tors he was not beat­en by his ab­duc­tors. Po­lice re­ports stat­ed that around 10 am on Sat­ur­day, Lou, who is in his ear­ly 30s, had just de­liv­ered items at a busi­ness place in Clax­ton Bay.

Two armed men rushed to his van and bun­dled him in­to the back, then drove off with him. Po­lice be­lieve the men used Lou's van as a get­away ve­hi­cle af­ter rob­bing a fam­i­ly not too far from the area of the kid­nap­ping. Lou's fam­i­ly was con­tact­ed on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon by men who de­mand­ed a $200,000 ran­som for his re­lease, po­lice said.

Lou's van had not been found up to late yes­ter­day. There were al­so no ar­rests. Su­per­in­ten­dents Baldeo Nanan and John­ny Abra­ham are head­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.