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Ground level intelligence points to cash-in-transit (CIT) robbers moving into the realm of kidnappings for ransom as a low-risk and high-reward payoff.
This according to impeccable sources both in police crime intelligence and the private security sector who - tapping vast informant networks - have raised the alarm at the shift in crime pattern. This follows a string of high-profile kidnappings for ransom, most notably the snatching of the Moti brothers last month.
An independent expert warned that South Africa has long been a fertile ground for foreign kidnapping syndicates with local gunmen as muscle, but a more complete move into this space by local crime syndicates would be worrisome.
