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OPERATIVES of the Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group (PNP-AKG) on Sunday rescued an abducted Chinese trader in Santo Tomas, Batangas<\/strong> and captured 12 of his kidnappers.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PNP-AKG director Brig. Gen. Glicerio Cansilao said \u00a0officers from their Luzon Field Unit successfully rescued the 30-year-old Chinese victim at the kidnappers\u2019 hideout in Santo Tomas City, Batangas around 2:45 p.m. Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cansilao said the victim is a supplier of construction materials from Taguig City.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The official said<\/strong> two of the Chinese suspects were arrested in a raid in Santo Tomas where the victim was rescued.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Prior to the rescue operation, the victim\u2019s cousin went to the headquarters of the PNP-AKG in Camp Crame on July 3 to report the alleged kidnapping.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The cousin said the victim was snatched in front of Coastal Luxury Residences in Para\u00f1aque City around 6:40 p.m. of July 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Officers immediately conducted a series of surveillance and follow-up operations.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The official said that 12 days before they launched the successful rescue operation, they discovered that the kidnap victim was taken to a safehouse in Batangas, where he was placed under strict guard round-the-clock by the kidnappers.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Follow-up operations launched by the PNP-AKG led to the arrest of the rest of the suspects in Pasay City, Makati City and Imus City in Cavite.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Recovered from the suspects were two unlicensed firearms, over P1-million in cash, suspected shabu, and a vehicle where several brand-new PNP and security guard uniforms were found.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThis points to a highly-organized crime group involved in the premeditated kidnapping of a Chinese national. May the arrest of the 12 suspected kidnappers serve as a strong warning to all kidnap-for-ransom gangs that we will relentlessly go after them,\u201d PNP chief Gen. Nicolas D. Torre III said<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OPERATIVES of the Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group (PNP-AKG) on Sunday rescued an abducted Chinese trader in Santo Tomas, Batangas and captured 12 of his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15173,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170\/revisions\/15173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}