02 August,2016 08:27 AM IST | | AFP
Brazilian police said on Sunday they had rescued the kidnapped mother-in-law of British Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone unharmed after eight days in captivity
Bernie Ecclestone
Sao Paulo: Brazilian police said on Sunday they had rescued the kidnapped mother-in-law of British Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone unharmed after eight days in captivity.
Bernie Ecclestone
Aparecida Schunck Flosi Palmeira - the 67-year-old mother of Ecclestone's Brazilian wife Fabiana Flosi, had been missing since she was kidnapped on July 22.
Authorities said in a short statement she had been "liberated" and was "unharmed," adding that they had arrested two suspects.
Local Globo TV showed the woman hugging waiting relatives as she arrived at a Sao Paulo police station under police escort. A demand for a ransom of $188 million was made to the family via e-mail, but had not been paid, O Estado de Sao Paulo daily reported.
Another newspaper, the weekly Veja, reported that the ransom demand was $36.6 million. Police did not respond to AFP requests for information.
Kidnappers posing as delivery men abducted her from her home in the Jardin Santa Helena area of southern Sao Paulo, neighbours told AFP last week.
She is the mother of Ecclestone's 38-year-old Brazili an wife Fabiana Flosi, who met the 85-year-old billionaire while working for the Interlagos Grand Prix in 2009. The couple married in Switzerland and now live in London.
