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The company director of a security firm has been made to steal around €1million from the safes of his own company by a kidnap gang who had seized his family.
At least five armed and masked men broke into the businessman's home on the morning of December 23 and took his wife and daughter hostage.
The company director was then told to go to his business premises in the Bluebell area of Dublin and empty the safes of money. He then met the gang at an unnamed location at around 6am and handed over a sum of money believed to be in the region of €1m.
A spokesman said the businessman had been reunited with his family, who were unharmed but traumatised by the incident. No arrests have been made and the Gardai are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.
This incident is the latest in a series of so-called ‘tiger kidnappings' in Ireland - a term believed to be derived from the way tigers stalk their prey - in which gangs hold the families of victims hostage and force them to rob their own or their employers' businesses.
The past few weeks have seen an increase in ‘tiger' kidnappings. A bookmaker was forced to rob his own shop while his family was held hostage in County Westmeath at the start of December, while a father was made to rob a Post Office in Edenmore where he worked a few days later. In Belfast a branch of Marks and Spencer was also hit by a
similar incident last week.
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