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Thursday, December 08, 2005
Couple's son released after payment of P7.5M
CEBU CITY -- A man kidnapped by four unidentified men last November in Cebu City was reportedly released after his parents, who are traders in Carbon market, paid P7.5 million ransom.
Police could not give details about the kidnapping because the family of the 26-year-old victim refused to cooperate in the investigation.
The family has since left Cebu for a vacation.
Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 Director Eduardo Gador confirmed that they received a report about the kidnapping, but when he sent the Presidential Anti-Crime Emergency Response (Pacer) to investigate, family members of the victim kept mum on the matter.
Reports said the victim was driving his Honda Civic on V. Rama Avenue when the kidnappers pounced on him.
Two motorcycles each with two people onboard blocked the car's path and identified themselves as policemen.
They handcuffed him and put him at the backseat of his car. One of the kidnappers took over the steering wheel and drove him to an area the victim was unfamiliar with.
Hours later, one of the kidnappers, using the victim's mobile phone, called up the victim's parents to demand a ransom of P15 million.
They threatened that something bad would happen to their son if they refused to pay ransom. His parents begged the kidnappers to lower the ransom.
They later agreed on the P7.5-million ransom. The payoff was made in a food chain in Mandaue City.
Two women picked the bag that contained the money and left the victim's parents an instruction to fetch their son in an abandoned shanty in Barangay Pit-os in Cebu City.
Gador suspects that one person and not members of an organized kidnapping syndicate, similar to those operating in Mindanao and Luzon, hired the culprits. (JFT of Superbalita)
(December 8, 2005 issue)
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