a few days ago, Andrei Mostovói, Zenit Saint Petersburg footballer, was the victim of a attempted kidnapping in Russia while returning home from training.
The Russian midfielder was in the isla de Krestovsky, one of the most exclusive areas of the city, and got out of the car with his friend and hockey player Alexander Grakun when a group of hooded men tried to put them in a van.
The footballer reacted quickly to the threat and managed to prevent the situation from ending in tragedy. “What saved him was his ability to analyze the situation in a fraction of a second,” Mostovoy's mother told the KP-Petersburg newspaper.
Furthermore, he explained that his son “managed to reduce the kidnappers physically and mentally, leaving them unconscious. They ended up running away in a state of shock. Andrei, of course, has golden legs and he was able to escape quickly.”
The St. Petersburg police responded to the scene immediately and opened a investigationalthough from the beginning it was suspected that The attack was planned due to the footballer's notoriety and economic status.
After failing to kidnap Mostovoy, criminals kidnapped Sergei Selegen, a local businessman and son-in-law of Vyacheslav Makarov, a deputy of the State Duma, the lower house of the parliament of the Russian Federation. They put him in a vehicle and demanded around 110,000 euros. When the exchange of money began, the police intervened and arrested four of the criminals.
According to KP-Petersburg, those involved were university students who are sports fans, and one of them, identified as the leader of the group, had accepted the proposal of a Telegram contact who called himself 'Satanist': kidnap the footballer in exchange for five million rubles, about 54,000 euros.
Zenit Saint Petersburg issued a statement ensuring that the player is stable and that its security measures have been reinforced, something that it had been demanding for some time. “You need private security from the beginning. We don't understand why they attacked us. “We are genuinely surprised,” Alexander Grakun told the newspaper.
