Anti-terrorist police are investigating the kidnapping of a prominent Greek industrialist yesterday.by unknown assailants.
George Milonas (49), the chairman of the Federation of Industries of Northern Greece and chief executive of the Greek aluminium company Alumil, was taken from outside his home at gunpoint shortly before midnight.
His wife was with him but was not harmed.
Mr Milonas's three abductors were carrying automatic weapons, and his car was found abandoned about 3km (1.9 miles) from his house in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.
Road blocks have been set up throughout the city and at the country's northern borders with Macedonia, Bulgaria and Albania to prevent the culprits from fleeing abroad.
Kidnappings in Greece are rare, but the country suffered a spate of assassinations of businessmen and diplomats from 1975 to 2003 - mostly the work of the now-dismantled extreme leftist November 17 urban guerrilla group.