Kidnapped businessman's body dumped

The 28-day search for kidnapped businessman Farouk Kalamadeen ended at around 06:00 hrs yesterday, after his headless body was found on a parapet on Cowan Street, Kingston.Police said that the body was positively identified by Kalamadeen’s son, who, along with other relatives, had rushed to the scene.

According to reports, the victim was shirtless, but was wearing a pair of burgundy trousers.

Police believe that the businessman was murdered sometime on Tuesday night and dumped on the parapet just before dawn yesterday. Detectives who visited the scene scoured a nearby trench for several minutes but failed to locate the slain man’s head.A female resident said that she was in her yard when she observed three policemen staring over a fence at an object on the parapet.

Kalamadeen, the manager of Jiffy Lubes, who lived at Barrington Apartments, Houston, East Bank Demerara, was abducted in broad daylight on Wednesday, April 2, while going on his customary morning walk around the area.According to one eyewitness to the kidnapping, he was accosted at gunpoint on Mandela Avenue by three armed men, who forced him into a dark-blue Toyota AT192, which bore cardboard number plates. Kalamadeen, who also manages a gold mining operation in the interior, was without his mobile phone and licensed firearm.

After he did not turn up to open the North Road offices of Jiffy Lubes, family members launched a search for him around the Houston, Mandela Avenue and Meadow Bank areas, but failed to find him.

A suspect was arrested after being identified as one of the abductors but was later released.The businessman’s relatives have insisted that he was not involved in any illegal business said they have no idea why anyone would want to kidnap him.They also said that they received no ransom demand and were never contacted by Kalamadeen’s abductors.