Abducted businessman's son took taxi with girl before vanishing

The missing son of a Krasnoyarsk businessman left in a taxi with an unknown girl the day before, the prosecutor«s office press service reported. The taxi driver»s identity has been established, but where her passengers were headed is still unknown, and there are no other details.

One of the residents of the Serebryany Bor settlement named Sergey told journalists that outsiders could not have entered the territory because it is guarded.

“Unauthorized individuals could not have passed here unnoticed, everything is tracked,” he said.

Another neighbor of the missing boy«s family described his parents as conscientious businessmen, and called the missing boy calm, decent, kind, trusting, and open. He also noted that he does well in school.

“This definitely doesn«t seem like Kolya. He has an older brother. Even if he were embarrassed to tell something to his parents, he would have called him. They have a trusting relationship,” the neighbor said.

On the morning of January 23, it was reported that, in addition to the businessman«s son, on Volochaevskaya Street in Krasnoyarsk, another 14-year-old schoolgirl went missing. A version emerged that the children disappeared together. However, the prosecutor»s office said that these cases are not related.

As law enforcement reported earlier, on the evening of January 22, the businessman«s son left home in Serebryany Bor “in an unknown direction with an unknown person.” In the evening, the child»s father received a message in a messenger that his son had been kidnapped and a ransom of 30 million rubles (approximately $300,000 at current rates) was demanded. The child«s father is Andrey Kaplya, one of the richest businessmen in Krasnoyarsk and the “king of state contracts”.

From the safes in the family«s home, three million rubles (approximately $30,000 at current rates) went missing. The Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case on kidnapping, and the prosecutor»s office began a check. One version is that the teenager became a victim of scammers. The child recorded a video address to his father.

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