Thursday, April 21, 2011

Russian software tycoon Kaspersky's son 'missing'

The son of Russian software entrepreneur Yevgeny Kaspersky has gone missing in Moscow and may have been kidnapped.

According to the BBC News, secret service and regular police have been searching for Ivan Kaspersky, 20, for at least two days, a police source told Interfax news agency.

His father’s firm, Kaspersky Lab, told a newspaper it could not confirm news he had been abducted.

Yevgeny Kaspersky made his fortune developing anti-virus software.

News of his son’s abduction was reported by Russian news website Life News, quoting its own sources.

The kidnappers are demanding 3m euros ($4.3m) for Ivan’s safe return, the website says.

According to the unconfirmed report, he was snatched while on his way to work in Moscow on Tuesday.

Armenian News

No comments:

Post a Comment