A man suspected of drugging, abducting and sexually assaulting a woman, then blackmailing her for $300,000 in exchange for the photographs, has been extradited from Victoria to New South Wales.
Yanyu Mu, 29, was arrested in Oakleigh East in Melbourne’s southeast on Thursday and then extradited to Sydney.
He did not apply for bail in Parramatta Local Court on Saturday.
New South Wales police will allege he led a group of men who forced a 36-year-old woman into a car in Epping, northwest of Sydney, in April.
She told police investigating the kidnapping that she had been drugged and sexually assaulted, and was taken to hospital the next day for treatment.
Detectives allegedly found her clothing, as well as drugs and restraints believed to have been used in the sexual assault, in a trash can at an Eastwood home, not far from where the woman was abducted.
The items were taken for forensic examination.
The extradited man has been charged with aggravated gang sexual assault and deprivation of liberty, gang detention for ransom causing actual bodily harm, use of an intoxicating substance to commit an indictable offence and knowingly directing the activities of a criminal group.
He is also accused of recording the alleged sexual assault and threatening to distribute the images, with police alleging he demanded a $300,000 ransom.
The man was due to appear in Parramatta Bail Court on Saturday.
