Man rescued by gardaí from armed kidnapping in car on M50 is an ex-boxer from Belfast

The four suspects remain in garda custody where they continue to be questioned about the false imprisonment and firearms offences

The businessman was discovered with the four kidnappers when the vehicle was stopped by gardaí at Junction 4, near Ballymun, following an alert from the Police Service of Northern Ireland. File picture: Collins

A former boxer and businessman was bundled into a car by an armed abduction gang and driven 160km to Dublin before the kidnapping was dramatically foiled by gardaí on the M50.

The Belfast man, aged in his mid-30s, was kidnapped by four members of a well-known crime gang at gunpoint in the North in an incident linked to organised crime on both sides of the border.