The father accused of abducting his London-based daughter while she was visiting the United States arrived in Massachusetts today in chains.

The man known as Clark Rockefeller, whose past is shrouded in mystery, arrived at Logan Airport before a court appearance expected this afternoon.

Police say Mr Rockefeller, who has multiple aliases, abducted his 7-year-old daughter, Reigh Boss in a brazen daylight kidnapping on July 27.

FBI agents apprehended him in Baltimore on Saturday, where he had purchased a house and a boat. He faces charges of felony parental kidnapping, assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Reigh has now been reunited with her mother Sandra Boss, a graduate of the Harvard Business School who works in London as a senior partner with McKinsey & Co, a management consulting firm.

The 48-year-old man who identified himself as J.P. Clark Rockefeller, James Frederick, Clark M. Rockefeller III, Chip MacLaughlin, Clark Mill Rockefeller and Michael Brown planned to start a new life with his daughter in Baltimore but after huge media interest in his disappearance his whereabouts was reported to police.

His purchase of a new home, worth almost half-million-dollars, helped lead to his arrest. The real estate firm that sold Mr Rockefeller his new home recognised him from news reports and tipped off the authorities.

Mr Rockefeller approached Baltimore’s Obsidian Realty in late 2007 using the alias Chip MacLaughlin. He asked real estate agents to help him find a two-or three-bedroom home for him and his daughter while he relocated from Chile, said Julie Gochar, a managing partner in the firm.

The firm helped him find temporary housing and gave him access to its offices to use the internet until agents arranged the purchase of his home in mid-July.

Then, Ms Gochar said: “We saw a bulletin on morning news with several photos of a Mr Clark Rockefeller - the man we knew as ’Chip."

Mr Rockefeller is alleged to have snatched his daughter in Boston while she was visiting him after his divorce from her mother.

During their 12-year marriage, the couple lived a lavish lifestyle. They owned a brownstone near Senatior John Kerry’s home in Boston’s smart Beacon Hill area and a mansion in Cornish, New Hampshire, a summer resort enjoyed by artists and authors.

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