Target: Rosneft
- Rosneft exec's son held to ransom
- Kidnap suspect denies claims
- Kidnap a rare blot on Russia's report
- Kidnappers release Lukoil chief
- Lukoil's Kukura freed
- Lukoil executive nabbed
- Lukoil kidnap talks break down
- $6m ransom demand for Kukura
- Lukoil on slippery slope
- Lukoil CFO abducted
- Players call for calm over Lukoil kidnap
Kidnappers free Rosneft exec's son
The teenaged son of a senior Rosneft executive, who was reported kidnapped in April, was freed today, Russian prosecutors said.
The 19-year-old son of Rosneft vice president Mikhail Stavsky was kidnapped in April and local media reports said a €50 million ($69.31 million) ransom had been demanded.
"The son of a Rosneft vice president who was kidnapped in April near the building of the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil & Gas was freed this morning," a spokeswoman for the Moscow city's prosecutor's main investigation unit told Reuters.
A separate statement released a few hours later said a woman from Chechnya in southern Russia had been detained in Moscow in connection with the kidnapping.
Neither statement specified whether a ransom was paid in one of the highest profile Russian kidnappings in recent years.
Sergei Kukura, the chief financial officer of Russian producer Lukoil, was kidnapped in 2002.
He was released several days later, but the company and security services gave few details about the abductors and their motives.