Kidnapped student back with family- Remulla
Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla, NCRPO chief Anthony Aberin, and PNP Anti-Kidnapping Group Director Elmer Ragay hold a press briefing in Malacañang on Wednesday to give updates on the kidnapping of a foreign student of an exclusive school in Taguig City.
Remulla linked the kidnapping incident to Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators crime syndicates.
"We’re sure that the syndicate is still here in the country. We will make sure that they will be neutralized at the soonest possible time," Remulla said
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Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla, NCRPO chief Anthony Aberin, and PNP Anti-Kidnapping Group Director Elmer Ragay hold a press briefing in Malacañang on Wednesday to give updates on the kidnapping of a foreign student of an exclusive school in Taguig City.
Remulla linked the kidnapping incident to Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators crime syndicates.
"We’re sure that the syndicate is still here in the country. We will make sure that they will be neutralized at the soonest possible time," Remulla said
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00:00It happened in a kidnapping case of a student from a prestigious international school in Taguig City.
00:10This happened on February 20, approximately 3.45 in the afternoon.
00:18The victim's parents informed him that his son was being dismissed at 2.40pm and was not yet home.
00:31Subsequently, the abandoned Everest vehicle was found on the off-ramp southbound of C5.
00:42After which, he was only considered a missing person, but assumed to be a kidnapping case.
00:51The next day, Feb 21, in Taguig City, a report of parents.
00:59Subsequently, in San Rafael, Bulacan, a vehicle was found that belonged to the driver of the child who was found murdered inside another vehicle.
01:20In that vehicle, he hid information regarding a syndicate which operates in this manner.
01:32The contents of that include pictures, conversations, cell phone numbers, strategies, casings of how they would do the job.
01:44Now, the driver is already deceased, so he cannot be considered a person of interest.
01:54However, the vehicle where he was found yielded evidence.
02:01Subsequently, a demand ransom of $20 million was made.
02:08This was the demand and refusal of the parents.
02:13After that, on Saturday, a video was released in which the child was cut off by a knife.
02:24When investigated, there was a conversation.
02:30The parents asked for proof of life.
02:34The proof of life was that the child saw the favorite song of his younger brother singing.
02:46The child smiled and saw the video of the child in good health.
02:55On Monday, the PKG already yielded positive results out of the evidence found when the cell phones of the abductors pinged.
03:15You have to understand that this group is very sophisticated.
03:19They say that our child is from a different place.
03:26However, a lot of children were left there.
03:30They were brought to the father and we examined all of them.
03:35We identified that the child was cut off by a knife from his right side.
03:49The child was brave. He did not cry.
03:53He was happy to see his parents.
03:57He was happy to see his mother, Taranta.
04:01We brought the child to the hospital.
04:04There was a brief debriefing and now the family is separated.
04:10Let me make another point clear.
04:13A ransom demand went from $20 million to $1 million to no ransom being paid by the family.
04:23I would like to congratulate the AKG, the NCPRO for their vigilant efforts in chasing after this.
04:33This is a function of effective policing.
04:38We suspect that the victim was abducted from a family that operates in Bogot.
04:48We are definite that the syndicate behind the kidnapping is also a former operator of BOGO.
04:58We are definite that the perpetrators used their former bodyguards who are now AWOL in the service of AFP and PNP.
05:14AWOL, so they are no longer in service.
05:18We are sure that the syndicate is still here in the country.
05:27We will make sure that they will be neutralized as soon as possible.
05:34We will make sure that this kind of crime will not pay.
05:40We will make sure that the ransom will be given to the family of the victim.
05:47Colonel Raleigh, the newly designated acting director of Anti-Kidnapping Group.
05:54What we are looking at here is a former group that was involved in the previous kidnapping incidents led by a Chinese.
06:04We will just withhold the name.
06:07But we have already caught people in the past, particularly in 2003.
06:13We have already caught people, but there are those that are still at large.
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