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Third man charged after alleged Sydney kidnapping

A third man has been charged over an alleged kidnapping where a 53-year-old man had to be saved by a police raid on a Sydney home.

The man was allegedly snatched from outside a tobacco shop he owned in Mount Pritchard on February 24, with CCTV footage showing four men in balaclavas approaching him.

The group then allegedly assaulted the victim and forced him into a Hyundai hatchback.

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CCTV MT PRITCHARD KIDNAPPING

He tried to fight them off but was unable.

The man was allegedly taken to a property at Dural on Sydney's north-west fringes, but a covert police operation on February 26 led to his freedom.

The victim was not injured and in a stable condition when he was taken to hospital.

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The scene from the Mount Pritchard tobacconist where the man was allegedly kidnapped.

A teenager and a man were previously arrested and charged with kidnapping offences, and now a third person, a 27-year-old man, has been arrested in Surry Hills.

He was taken to Surry Hills Police Station, where he was charged with multiple offences, including take and detain in company with intent to ransom and occasion actual bodily harm, and participating in a criminal group and contributing in criminal activity.

He was refused bail to appear in court today.

There is one individual seen in the CCTV footage who is yet to be found.

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