General Manager of Hilton Addis Released From Prison

Police had arrested the General Manager of Addis Abeba Hilton Hotel earlier today, following a business dispute with a private firm, Entoto Travel. Mr. Haakon Gaarder-Larsen, a Norwegian national, had been having lunch in the hotel when a plain clothe and uniformed officers produced a court warrant.

In a developing story, Fortune just learnt that Mr. Haakon Gaarder-Larsen, the General Manager of ADDIS ABEBA Hilton has been released late afternoon today, after briefly being detained at Kirkos District police station.