Two additional men have been arrested and charged following an international manhunt this month. 

Following a joint operation between South East and Regional Organised Crime Unit and international law enforcement partners, Erlind Demiraj, 31, of Orts Road, Reading was arrested by Dutch authorities attempting to cross from Belguim into the Netherlands.

After being extradited, he was again arrested in the UK on Thursday, November 17 and was remanded in custody at Reading Magistrates Court.

Gentjan Kica, aged 33, of Glenrosa Road, Reading, was also charged by postal requisition on 6 October this year with one count each of conspiring to kidnap and conspiring to blackmail.

Kica was released on conditional bail at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday (16/11).

Demiraj and Kica are both due to appear at Reading Crown Court on 6 December.

The charges are in connection with an incident in Maiden Place, Lower Earley, at around 6.30pm on 8 December last year, where two men were kidnapped, and later located in Northampton on 13 December last year.

Gevin Pasha, aged 21, of Gray Street, Northampton; Klej Doci, aged 19, of St Margaret’s Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex; Garcon Lala, aged 27, of Eastern Road, Haringey, London; all remain remanded in custody having been charged in December last year.

They are due to appear at Reading Crown Court on 6 February next year.

Five other men have also been arrested and released in connection with the investigation.