EUR 300 000 Ransom Paid for Release of Bulgarian Businessman’s Kidnapped Son

EUR 300 000 have been paid as ransom for the release of Rumen Guninski Jr., the 22-year-old son of a wealthy Bulgarian businessman, who was abducted on October 19, 2009.

The figure is cited by reports in the Bulgarian media Monday, based on unofficial information. Initially, the kidnappers are reported to have demanded EUR 500 000.

Guninski Jr. was found on the stadium in the town of Elin Pelin, southeast of Sofia, later Sunday night.

Bulgaria’s Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, announced that the young man was in a good condition but did not specify whether a ransom had been paid for his release.

The man’s father, Rumen Guninski Sr., is involved in energy, construction, and tourism business in the towns of Pravetz and Botevgrad, northeast of Sofia. He has been exposed as a collaborator of the former State Security (the secret police of the former communist regime). The businessman has not announced any information regarding a demanded ransom.

His son was kidnapped 40 days before he was released in public in front of his dorm in the Studentski Grad Quarter in Sofia.

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