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Less than a week af­ter kid­nap­pers de­mand­ed US$2.5 mil­lion for the re­lease of cou­ple Der­rick and Clari­bel Tardieu, their kid­nap­pers have re­port­ed­ly agreed to re­duce the amount to $100,000, se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers said yes­ter­day.

The re­duc­tion in the ran­som is the lat­est de­vel­op­ment in the case, po­lice sources told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day.

Tardieu, 70, a busi­ness­man, and his 47-year-old wife were snatched from their Blanchette Bay, Monos Is­land home on De­cem­ber 6.