<div><p>The president of a chain of popular breakfast restaurants was kidnapped at gun point and then mysteriously released - and almost no one can figure out why.</p><p>Nicholas Tsouflidis was allegedly taken on Wednesday night just north of Montreal. He was found - alive and uninjured - later that night, bound in a ditch miles from where he was taken.</p><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>A witness said he found a man who claimed not to know where he was and repeatedly said he'd been kidnapped.</p><p>Tsouflidis was taken to hospital as a precaution but had no apparent injuries.</p><p></p><p>Police are currently investigating to corroborate his story, but what happened between his capture and his release remains a mystery.</p><p>Tsouflidis is president of Cora Group, a company that runs the hugely successful chain of Cora restaurants. There are more than 150 locations in Canada.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Corastore-twitter.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Corastore-twitter_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Corastore-twitter_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Corastore-twitter_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Corastore-twitter_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Corastore-twitter_GH_content_950px.jpg 950w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Corastore-twitter_GH_content_1050px.jpg 1050w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Corastore-twitter_GH_content_1150px.jpg 1150w" sizes="89vw" title="Cora Restaurants" alt="Cora Restaurants" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Twitter</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>He is the youngest son of the restaurants founder, Cora Mussely Tsouflidou, and has been president since 2008.</p><p>While successful, the Tsouflidis family normally keeps a low-profile, making this bizarre story even weirder.</p></div>