Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed on Monday that preliminary investigations indicate that the abduction of Kuwaiti national Issam Ibrahim Nasser al-Houti was not “politically motivated.”

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed on Monday that preliminary investigations indicate that the abduction of Kuwaiti national Issam Ibrahim Nasser al-Houti was not “politically motivated.”

“He wasn’t targeted because he is a Kuwaiti citizen,” Miqati told An Nahar newspaper, local Naharnet news website reported.

He pointed out that the security agencies are exerting efforts to safely free al-Houti.

Information obtained by Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) said that his brother-in-law was detained on Sunday on suspicion of involvement in the abduction.

VDL reported later that ISF arrested two other people from Ali al-Nahri in the Bekaa for suspected links to the abduction of al-Houti.

On Saturday, al-Houti, 52, was seized at gunpoint after his car was intercepted by unknown gunmen in the area of Hawsh al-Ghanam in the eastern Bekaa valley.

The daily said that the army raided several towns in the Bekaa on Sunday night after the army intelligence succeeded in locating the whereabouts of the abductors.