By SHEILA LASIBORI
A HUSBAND and wife gold trading team was held captive by a gang of robbers for two nights and gold and cash worth about K6 million was stolen from their Waigaini office last weekend.
The expatriate couple is in a state of shock after they were reportedly kidnapped last Friday morning and held captive for two nights before being released yesterday morning in Port Moresby.
The Italian man and his Filipina wife (names withheld) were reportedly abducted at about 6pm last Friday from their apartment.
Police have confirmed that the couple was held for two nights by their captors but said they could not get statements from the couple because they are still traumatised by their ordeal.
From what they could put together of the incident, police said the couple was abducted from their apartment and held by their captors for the first night last Friday.
At about 6am on Saturday, the captors drove the couple to their Waigani office where they forced the husband to open the safe where gold bars and other gold accessories were removed along with a substantial amount of cash, police said.
Although the captors “got what they wanted” they still held the couple captive on Saturday night and released them yesterday morning.
Police Commissioner Gari Baki when contacted yesterday said he had been briefed on the case but could not comment further.
But a police task force is believed to have been mounted to investigate the case following reports of the couple’s abduction last Friday.
The National understands that police investigations are continuing and that the couple will be providing statements once they have recovered from the ordeal.