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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

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Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. The family of kidnapped Sydney man

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Speaker 1: Chris Bagsarian say they're still coming to terms with the

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Speaker 1: death of the eighty five year old. That's after police

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Speaker 1: arrested two men aged twenty four and twenty nine in

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Speaker 1: relation to Bagsarian's kidnapping and alleged murder. New South Wales

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Speaker 1: Police released footage of the arrest, showing one of the

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Speaker 1: men losing his pants and having to be assisted as

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Speaker 1: officers bundled him out of a home.

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Speaker 2: Hi Safe Life.

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Speaker 1: Chris Bagsarian was snatched from his house where he lived

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Speaker 1: alone in North Ryde in the early hours of February thirteen.

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Speaker 1: Police suspect the incident was a case of mistaken identity,

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Speaker 1: and there are reports the grandfather lived near the home

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Speaker 1: of a Sydney Underworld identity connected to a long running

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Speaker 1: feud between two crime families. Bagsarian's family issued a state

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Speaker 1: via New Southwales Police on Wednesday, saying they welcome the

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Speaker 1: news of the recent arrests. Police searched two properties in

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Speaker 1: Kenthurst and Castle Hill in Sydney's Hills district. Early on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: they took the two men to the nearby Riveston Police

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Speaker 1: station where the investigation is continuing. No charges have been laid.

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Speaker 1: This is New Southwales Police Detective Acting Superintendent Andrew Marx.

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Speaker 2: They are still being processed and we expect that they

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Speaker 2: will be charged in connection with the kidnapping and murder

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Speaker 2: of mister Bagsari. We'll allege in court that these men

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Speaker 2: participated in a joint criminal enterprise with other persons to

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Speaker 2: kidnap mister Bagsarian and ultimately where he was held hostage,

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Speaker 2: where he come to his death, and he'll be charged.

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Speaker 2: They'll be charged with his murder. Once again, I wish

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Speaker 2: to stress that mister Bagsarian was not the intended target

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Speaker 2: of the kidnapping.

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Speaker 1: The disappearance of Chris Bagsarian almost two weeks ago prompted

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Speaker 1: a major search by police. Investigators discovered what they called

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Speaker 1: a makeshift stronghold had an abandoned property in Durall and

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Speaker 1: said they believe Bagsarian was held there for some time.

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Speaker 2: We suspect that mister Bagsarian did die at the property

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Speaker 2: in Duram, you know when, Other than to say that

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Speaker 2: we believe that mister bagsarien was deceased at the time

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Speaker 2: that he was dropped off at the property at the

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Speaker 2: location where he was found, and that was after nine

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Speaker 2: o'clock on Saturday, the fourteenth of February.

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Speaker 1: Chris Bagsarian's remains were located almost fifty kilometers from his

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Speaker 1: home on Tuesday morning, near the Linwood Golf Club in Pitttown.

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Speaker 2: We can now confirm that the remains that were located

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Speaker 2: yesterday were in fact mister bagsariin We have done this

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Speaker 2: through forensic testing.

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Speaker 1: Mark said. Bagsarian's family did not receive correspondence, including a

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Speaker 1: ransom demand, following his abduction.

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Speaker 2: I suspect that the intended target was going to be

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Speaker 2: kidnapped where a ransom for money was going to be

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Speaker 2: past For Whilst the family of mister Bagsari and well

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Speaker 2: they welcome the news of the arrests, they are still

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Speaker 2: devastated by the loss of their father and grandfather.

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Speaker 1: Check out that story live right now at the Australian

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Speaker 1: dot com dot au and come back to the front

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Speaker 1: first thing in the morning for some voices from inside

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Speaker 1: one of the worst places on earth, the Ourroje detention camp,

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Speaker 1: where thirty four Australians are desperate to get home that's

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Speaker 1: right here. Thursday morning,