A 28-year-old man has been grant­ed $375,000 bail in con­nec­tion with the kid­nap­ping of Trinidad-born Unit­ed King­dom cit­i­zen Za­heer Esat.

Jonathan Nan­coo was grant­ed bail last Fri­day by Port-of-Spain High Court Mas­ter Deli­cia Bethelmy who or­dered that he sur­ren­der his pass­port, have no con­tact with the vic­tim or wit­ness­es and re­port to the po­lice sta­tion.

Po­lice al­leged that on April 4 at War­ren Road, Cunu­pia, to­geth­er with oth­er per­sons un­known, the ac­cused did law­ful­ly seize and take away Esat with­out his con­sent or with­out law­ful ex­cuse, for ran­som.