Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports that a man was beat­en, doused with chem­i­cals, as­sault­ed with a drill and threat­ened with sodomy un­less he paid mon­ey to ex­tor­tion­ists in Tu­na­puna.

Po­lice said the man was at his work­place, a bar in Tu­na­puna, when he was called to the stock room by his boss to talk.

On reach­ing the stock room, the man saw his boss and two oth­er men in­side who beat him and doused him in chem­i­cals be­fore pin­ning him down.