Nandu previously reported that two Chinese citizens were kidnapped by gangsters in Haiti on October 7, local time, which caused widespread concern. On October 26, Nandu reporters confirmed from Wenling Hongyuan Construction Co., Ltd. (Haiti), to which the two Chinese citizens who were kidnapped, that after 17 days, the two Chinese citizens had been rescued on the evening of October 24, local time, and that the company said it had paid a ransom to the kidnappers.
On October 21, Nandu reporters received a report from Li Kang (pseudonym), a Chinese citizen living in Haiti, that one of his compatriots and another Chinese citizen had been kidnapped by gangsters and that his whereabouts remained unknown more than 10 days later.
Subsequently, Nandu reporters confirmed from the China Haiti Trade Development Office that the two Chinese citizens who were kidnapped were employees of wenling Hongyuan company, a local Chinese-funded enterprise. The office issued a notification that two Chinese citizens were kidnapped by gangs on Oct. 7 in croix-de-Buquet, east of the capital Port-au-Prince.
According to Li Kang, one of the abducted Chinese citizens was from Zhejiang, and both were in their 40s, had been working in Haiti for several years, and had been doing the work of managing the warehouse before the incident.
Li Kang told Nandu reporters that the kidnappers' organization was called "400 Mawozo" and that two Chinese citizens were abducted by car from Pétionville in Haiti to Croix de Bukai Road in the east of the city. "It was about 10 a.m. when a group of armed kidnappers stopped the vehicle on the road, held three people, including the Haitian driver, at gunpoint, and got out of the car to kidnap them. Their company has asked the merchant office for help and is communicating with the kidnappers, who ask for money, and the asking price is said to be very high. ”
On October 26, the relevant person in charge of Wenling Hongyuan Construction Co., Ltd. (Haiti) told nandu reporters that the above two Chinese citizens had been successfully rescued, "They are now recuperating, and their physical condition is fine." ”
The person in charge said that since the two Chinese citizens were kidnapped, the company has been actively rescued, and finally reached an agreement with the kidnapping gang on the evening of October 24, local time, and the kidnapping gang drove the two Chinese citizens to the haitian city of Croix de Bukai near the warehouse of the company, and then the company asked the local residents to pick them up. "After we agreed with the kidnappers on the amount of the ransom, the two Chinese citizens were safely returned, and it is not convenient to disclose the specific ransom amount at present." He said.
It is reported that Wenling Hongyuan Construction Co., Ltd. (Haiti) is an overseas branch of Zhejiang Wenling Hongyuan Construction Co., Ltd. According to the official website of Zhejiang Wenling Hongyuan Construction Co., Ltd., the company was founded in 1978 and is the first enterprise to obtain the "foreign contracting project qualification", and overseas projects involve Afghanistan, Haiti, Kuwait and other countries.
Since the beginning of this year, the situation in Haiti has been turbulent, the security situation has continued to deteriorate, and kidnappings have continued to grow. On October 13, China's Haitian Trade Development Office again issued a security alert, saying that the security situation in Haiti has deteriorated sharply recently, with demonstrations, smashing, looting and burning, and kidnapping cases surging. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the China Trade Development Office in Haiti remind Chinese citizens not to travel to Haiti in the near future, and remind Chinese citizens and institutions in Haiti to continue to maintain a high degree of vigilance, strengthen security precautions and emergency preparedness, reduce unnecessary travel, evacuate dangerous areas as soon as possible and report information to the China Trade and Development Office in Haiti.
Written by: Intern Liu Baiyi Nandu reporter Yu Yijing
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