Swiss authorities said Sunday they were unable to confirm or deny an Israeli public radio report that an Israeli businessman, also an Israeli reserve army colonel, may have been abducted in Switzerland.
A spokesman for Switzerland's police and justice ministry, Rolf Debrunner, said: "We've heard about this rumour, but we are not in a position to confirm or deny it. We're checking it."
Israeli authorities said they were checking reports that the man, who works for the Israeli electronics company Tadiran, a military supplier, was abducted, Israeli public radio reported.
He was reported missing on Saturday, military sources told AFP.
Lebanese Hizbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said earlier in Beirut that the fundamentalist group's guerrillas had captured a colonel in an apparently planned abduction.
But Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak told the weekly meeting of his cabinet Sunday that Israel knew of no missing soldier but was still checking the claims.
Hezbollah captured three Israeli sergeants on the Lebanese border on October 7 and is still holding them -- BERN (AFP)
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