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00:00A Chinese student who was stabbed by kidnappers by the PNP was arrested in Pogo.
00:09It was also investigated that he was involved in a shooting in a restaurant in Makati last year.
00:15Here is the first news, Jun Veneracion.
00:21After five days in the hands of the kidnappers, the 14-year-old Chinese student was saved.
00:27He was abandoned by the kidnappers and the police found him in Makapagal Avenue in Paranaque.
00:33He was immediately taken to his father and was later taken to the hospital.
00:37There was a gun in his hand that was pointed by the kidnappers' fingers.
00:41According to Interior Secretary John Vicrimulia, on February 20, the victim was stabbed.
00:46He returned to school at 2 p.m. but was not there until 4 p.m.
00:52The victim's SUV was found next to a C5 southbound.
00:56On Friday, the victim's driver was found dead inside a car.
01:22The gun was estimated to be worth $20 million, but it was reduced to $1 million.
01:30While negotiations were underway, the PNP Anti-Kidnapping Group was working on a plan
01:37to crack down on the victims and kidnappers.
01:40On Monday, the AKG yielded positive results
01:51out of the evidence found that the kidnappers' cellphones were pinging.
01:59You have to understand that this group is very sophisticated.
02:02They call the place where the child is from, a separate place.
02:09But there are a lot of numbers left there.
02:13The PNP followed the detected signal from the kidnappers
02:17until the victim was rescued.
02:19According to the PNP, the ransom was not paid.
02:22This is because of the so-called technical lead that was followed by the AKG
02:28and the human intelligence that was included.
02:32That is why the kidnappers forced the abductors to give the child to the student.
02:41Based on the investigation, the kidnapping of the victim may have a connection to POGO
02:45because his father used to be in the POGO business.
02:48There is another angle that the PNP is investigating that has to do with the business of the victim's family.
02:54The child's father is considered to be a big time in the field of e-selling.
02:58What we are looking for here is his involvement in POGO and his business associates
03:05in his e-selling business of merchandise.
03:11The PNP is also investigating if it has a connection to the shooting of a Chinese man
03:15in a restaurant in Makati City in 2024.
03:20The man who was shot is said to be a person of interest in the kidnapping of the student.
03:25It is said that there is a connection to the syndicate that came from the POGO operations.
03:30We are definite that the syndicate that is behind the kidnapping is a former operator of POGO.
03:41We are definite that the perpetrators used their former bodyguards
03:49who are now in the service of the AFP and PNP.
03:56So they are no longer in service.
03:59For the anti-crime advocate Teresita Angsi, what happened in Binatilio is different from the usual.
04:05There is a mystic type of kidnapping only this time.
04:09It is a very inhumane way of treating the victims and we have never encountered that before.
04:16In the past, the victims who were treated like that, where they tortured the victims,
04:22they cut the finger, adults and POGO related.
04:26This one is in no way related to the POGOs.
04:30According to Angsi's group, the Movement for Restoration of Peace and Order,
04:34the number of kidnappings has increased since the POGOs were closed in the country.
04:38In January, only four were reported.
04:41Most of the perpetrators are still the Chinese syndicates.
04:46The victims are not all POGO related.
04:50The government is caught flat-footed.
04:53They are not prepared what to do.
04:56The Filipino drivers are without jobs.
04:59Not just the Chinese are without jobs.
05:03We have to be more vigilant with these things happening now.
05:07According to Interior Secretary John V. Cremulia,
05:09The PNP is on top of the situation.
05:12The PNP does not neglect.
05:15We have the tools necessary to fight crime.
05:18The people around me now, I vouch safe for them.
05:21They are doing a good job.
05:23We will never let down our guard against criminality.
05:26Based on the data of the PNP Anti-Kidnapping Group,
05:29this is the eighth kidnapping case this year.
05:32Five have already been resolved and three are still being investigated.
05:35President Bobong Marcos has ordered the syndicates behind the kidnappings to investigate.
05:42This is the first news.
05:44Jun Veneracion for GMA Integrated News.
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