The Betrayal story: Ex-Australian cricketer, Stuart MacGill, first kidnapped and then released

During an alleged abduction on a Sydney lane, police allege that former Test cricketer Stuart MacGill was betrayed by someone he knew.

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Australian Test cricket great Stuart MacGill did not inform police for a week after he was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint for ransom because he felt “threatened and scared”.

MacGill, 50, was a Test spinner for the national team from 1998 to 2008. He was injured in the incident but did not need medical treatment, according to police.



According to police, MacGill knew one of the men and the plot was driven by money.


'Dragged into a car and assaulted'


MacGill was allegedly approached and threatened by a 46-year-old man he met in the Sydney suburb of Cremorne one evening, according to police.


Two more men joined the gang, and the ex-cricketer was forced into a car.



He was taken to a remote location in Bringelly, on the outskirts of the city, where he was reportedly attacked and threatened with a gun by a “criminal gang," according to police.

He was taken to the south-west suburb of Belmore and released after around an hour, according to police.

According to authorities, no money was handed over during the kidnapping attempt, but the kidnapping attempt was financially motivated.



Accused people
One of the men accused, Marino Sotiropoulos, 46, is said to be MacGill's recent partner Maria O'Meagher's brother.

Frederick 27, Richard Schaaf 29 and Son Minh Nguyen, 42, are the other three people charged.


Three weeks after the suspected abduction near MacGill's Sydney house, Robbery and Serious Crime Squad investigators arrested the men about 6 a.m. on Wednesday.


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