Indonesia cops held over Brit’s abduction

JAKARTA: Four police officers have been arrested over the abduction of a British national that saw kidnappers collect a US$900,000 (RM3.8 million) ransom. Officers staged a fake arrest of the victim at a toll road here last week, reinforcing the ruse by briefly taking him to a police station before moving him to a hotel. There, the kidnappers, who included a colleague of the victim, forced him to call his boss to raise the ransom, said city police spokesman Argo Yuwono. The Briton was released after the ransom was paid in US dollars, which the gang changed into local currency.