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The family of former Centerra Gold chief executive Len Homeniuk says he has been re-arrested in Bulgaria and fears he may be spirited away to Kyrgyzstan.

Homeniuk, who last week spoke with the Financial Post,spent 11 days in prison after he was arrested on July 27 in the Bulgarian town of Vidin, near the border of Romania. He was later transferred to house detention in a small apartment in the capital, Sofia.

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Family members now say Homeniuk was re-arrested at that apartment at 9:30 local time Monday night, then whisked back to Vidin on Tuesday.

It’s the latest twist in a saga in which the former mining executive, who holds dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship, seems to be a pawn in on-going talks over the fate of a gold mine in Kyrgyzstan, a rugged Central Asian republic located along the Silk Road.

Marina Stephens, Homeniuk’s wife, was with him when the police came Monday night, and was able to visit him at the police station a short while later. She returned early Tuesday to visit him at the police station, but was told he had already been moved to Vidin.