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Thu 03 Mar 2010Two held over Cyprus corpse ransom bid
NICOSIA – A court in Cyprus has remanded two men in custody on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery in another cemetery on Monday.
The men, a migrant from India and a Greek Cypriot, are suspected of being behind the crime, for which one of them received just €200 for helping the other suspect, a court heard. – (Reuters)
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