Who’s afraid of police and airport authorities?
Apparently not these eight Chinese men who pulled off a daring kidnapping attempt on their countryman right at the waiting area of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport last Friday.
Police Col. Jonnel Estomo, director of the PNP-Anti-Kidnapping Group, said the eight Chinese and their alleged Filipino cohort identified as 44-year old Jesus Solinap Jr. was collared by responding policemen who spotted the suspects trying to pull their victim inside a car at the Bay 14 of NAIA Terminal 3 in Pasay City.
Nabbed were Xin Zao, 27; Changlin Pang, 23; Yugi Cheng, 20; Shing Ke Zang, 20; Huan Liu, 27; Shao Ling Nie, 23; Yuhang Huang 23; and Siguo Gan, 27. All of the suspects are renting in Libis, Quezon City.
Estomo said the case stemmed from the request for assistance of airport security about a group of Chinese men trying to abduct their countryman who was later identified as Zhou Zeng Lin.
According to Lin, he was at the NAIA Friday morning to collect money from Zao Xin as payment for visa and escort fee. He was instructed to go to Bay 14 of the NAIA Terminal 3.
But while waiting in the area, a white Toyota Rush arrived and one of them tried to drag him inside the vehicle.
The incident caused panic among other passengers and people at the airport especially when the victim prevented himself from being dragged into the car by holding onto a steel railing.
Police arrived and effected the arrest of the suspects. But the suspects allegedly tried to ignore the cops and tried to resist arrest.
Estomo said cases of kidnapping, alarm and scandal, and resistance and disobedience to persons in authorities were immediately slapped against the suspects.
The PNP AKG had earlier reported a steep rise in cases of casino-related kidnappings, with almost all the victims and the arrested suspects as Chinese.
It said that the rise in kidnapping cases can be attributed to the increase of Chinese population in the Philippines with the opening of a number of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations establishments. (Aaron Recuenco)
