(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 16 - The Carabinieri ROS Special Branch and the Central Operations Service of the police on Saturday arrestd an Uzbek man in Italy in the kidnapping for the purpose of extortion of Stefano Guidotti, an Italian entrepreneur living in Moscow who between the end of June and the beginning of July was held hostage for about 36 hours before being released by the police.
    Guidotti is industrial gas producer SAD's representative in Russia.
    The police arrested a middle-aged Uzbek man believed to be the brains behind the abduction near Ravenna in northern Italy, a press conference was told.
    In June Russian police arrested four men between the ages of 21 and 36 for the kidnapping. (ANSA).