Overview
- - A glass and window entrepreneur, abducted with force in San Martín de Porres on April 24, was held for five days as kidnappers demanded 80,000 soles.
- - The victim said captors beat him, starved him, and asphyxiated him with a blanket until he blacked out while sending proof‑of‑life recordings to pressure his family, who raised 15,000 soles as an advance.
- - Dirincri investigators tracked the gang’s moves, and a simultaneous police operation on April 29 in Lima and Callao rescued the victim and led to ten arrests, including alleged leader Brayan Ezequiel Parra Vargas, with weapons, phones, vehicles, and drugs seized.
- - After his release in Santa Anita, the businessman rejoined his family but is receiving care for injuries and trauma as police and prosecutors advance the case.
- - In separate incidents reported the same period, textile businessman Jaime Sosa Rebolledo died after a street assault in San Martín de Porres, and a gunman killed César Omar Suárez Abanto at a Los Olivos restaurant as police examine motives such as extortion or score‑settling.