'Ransom paid in Paris for Sahils release'

MADRID (AFP/Reuters) - A ransom for a five-year-old British boy kidnapped in Pakistan and freed this week was paid in Paris, Spains Interior Ministry said Wednesday, adding five people have been detained.
The Spanish police said they had arrested three people suspected of exhorting a 110,000-pound ($168,900) ransom for Sahil Saeed.
They said they had arrested two Pakistani men and a Romanian woman in the village of Constanti in the northeastern region of Catalonia. One of the men and the woman had returned after collecting the money in Paris.
The police statement said two relatives of those detained in Spain, suspected of collaborating with them, were also arrested by French police in Paris.
Spanish police kept the three under surveillance and did not make the arrests until after fiver-year-old Sahil was freed unharmed by his abductors in Jhelum, Pakistan, on Tuesday.
Police found mobile phones in the flat where the three had been staying, which had been used to contact Sahils father, as well as 105,000 pounds and 3,565 euros ($4,916) in cash, and a computer bought with the remainder of the ransom.
Pakistani authorities had said an international gang of kidnappers was behind the abduction of the boy nearly two weeks ago.
Police added that the first phone calls demanding a ransom had been made from within Spain, which investigators tracked down to near where the arrests were made on Wednesday.
The kidnappers had told Sahils father to travel first to Manchester, in Britain, then to Paris to hand over the ransom money.
Authorities arrested the man and the woman once the little boys release was confirmed, the Spanish Interior Ministry said.