Colombian police have confirmed the arrests of four men allegedly involved in the kidnapping of Luis Diaz's father.

The Liverpool winger's father, Luis Manuel Diaz, has been released after being in captivity for 12 days.

Both of Diaz's parents were kidnapped initially, but his mother had been released much easier.

“We have detained four people allegedly responsible for the kidnapping of Luis Manuel Diaz," the National Police of Colombia wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

William René Salamanca Ramírez, Director General of the National Police of Colombia, wrote: “In coordination with @FiscaliaCol [the Attorney General's Office], we captured, in Maicao and Barrancas (La Guajira), four people accused of participating in the kidnapping of Mr. Luis Manuel Díaz, father of 'Lucho' Díaz, star of our Colombian Soccer Team.

“We launched "Operation Freedom" on the same day of the kidnapping, which allowed us to identify the alleged intellectual and material authors, among them the criminal group 'Los Primos', which commits crimes through criminal outsourcing."