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Police officers have established the location of a foreigner previously abducted in Shevchenkivsky district in Kyiv, and now investigators are working with him, the head of the National Police main department in Kyiv, Andriy Kryschenko, has reported.

“The police have established the location of the man who had been abducted in Shevchenkivsky district. He has minor injuries. Now investigators are working with him. Law enforcers are identifying the people who by force put the man into a car and the motives for committing the crime,” the press service of the Kyiv police said on Facebook.

As reported, the call center of Shevchenkivsky police department at about 12:00 p.m. on June 25 began to receive reports from the witnesses that in Turhenevska Street two unknown people forcibly put an unidentified man in a dark car and drove off the scene. The Perekhvat amber alert was introduced in Kyiv: a dark blue Volkswagen Golf car was being sought for.

A source told Interfax-Ukraine the kidnapped is the son of a diplomat.

According to the online edition Insider.Ua, the kidnapped person, born in 1992, is the son of the financial attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Libya.

Investigators have launched criminal proceedings over the “illegal deprivation of freedom or abduction of a person.”

Later, the adviser to the Interior Minister, MP from the People’s Front party faction Anton Gerashchenko on the air of 112.ua Channel actually confirmed the abduction of the son of a Libyan diplomat.