This was part of the tearful statement given to police by the wife of the mastermind behind the recent kidnapping of Dutch schoolboy Nayati Shamelin Moodliar.

The local woman, aged 23, cut short her honeymoon in Paris and returned here on Friday after she received numerous text messages and phone calls from family and friends, telling her to come home and clear her name.

She could only stare in horror and disbelief at her month-old husband when she learnt how the ransom had been used to pay for their European honeymoon.

  And, on Tuesday, the unemployed woman, escorted by her family members, spent several hours at the city police headquarters where she told police she did not know anything about the kidnapping.

City Criminal Investigation Department chief Datuk Ku Chin Wah said the woman was released as investigations revealed that she was not involved in the kidnapping.

The suspect and the woman were married early last month. Several weeks later, on April 27, the 12-year-old Dutch boy was snatched by two men as he was walking towards the Mont Kiara International School.

It was reported that the suspect allegedly masterminded the kidnapping to fund his honeymoon to Europe. Police sources revealed that after the woman had realised who her husband was, she pleaded with him to return home and surrender to the authorities, but he refused. He, however, allowed her to return home. It was also learnt that the Interpol search for the 24-year-old suspect had been widened to include other countries.

The noose around the mastermind's neck got tighter after RM30,000 was found in his room at his parents' home in Taman Bukit Maluri, Kepong.

Sources told the New Straits Times that after the mastermind's photograph and particulars were published, his parents lodged a police report, denying any knowledge of the kidnapping.

A police team was sent to the house and they searched the suspect's room, where they found the money, believed to be part of the RM300,000 ransom paid by Nayati's parents for his release.

The suspect's 51-year-old mother was also picked up by police on Tuesday to have her statement recorded as police learnt that her car had been used to drop Nayati off at the Rawang rest and recreation area along the North-South Expressway on May 3 after the ransom was paid. However, the woman was released after investigations revealed that she had no knowledge that her vehicle was used in the kidnapping.

The mastermind has been abandoned by his new wife and parents.

Nayati's case received worldwide attention as the kidnap was extensively reported in social networking sites. The boy was held in a house in Chemor, Perak, while the kidnappers negotiated the ransom amount with his parents through Facebook.