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00:00The 14-year-old Chinese student was arrested in Paranaque after being stabbed and cut off by the kidnappers' fingers.
00:08According to the PNP, it is not known whether the victim's father was involved in the crime or not in the business.
00:14This is a very sensitive matter.
00:17Watch June Veneracion.
00:19Watch June Veneracion.
00:49The victim was arrested.
00:50He went home at 2 p.m.
00:53But by 4 p.m., he was still not there.
00:56The SUV that was hit by the gun was found at C5 Southbound.
01:00On Friday, the driver of the victim was found dead inside a car.
01:05In that vehicle, you'll get information regarding the syndicate which was operating, which operates in this manner.
01:16Now, the contents of that include pictures, conversations, cell phone numbers, strategies, casings of how they would do the job.
01:29The gun is estimated to be worth $20 million, but it was reduced to $1 million.
01:35While there was a negotiation, the PNP Anti-Kidnapping Group was already working on a way to crack down on the victims and kidnappers.
01:45On Monday, the AKG already yielded positive results out of the evidence found.
01:57The cell phone numbers of the abductors were already giving signals.
02:04You have to understand that this group is very sophisticated.
02:07Their call and where the child is is a separate matter.
02:13But there are a lot of numbers left there.
02:18Yesterday afternoon, the PNP followed the detected signal from the kidnappers until the victim was rescued.
02:25According to the PNP, there was no ransom paid.
02:28This is because of the so-called technical lead that was followed by the AKG and the human intelligence that was included.
02:38That's why the kidnappers or the abductors were forced to give the child to the student.
02:47Based on the investigation, it is possible that the kidnapping of the victim is connected to POGO because his father was in the POGO business before.
02:55There is another angle that the PNP is investigating that is related to the business of the family of the victim.
03:00The child's father is considered to be a big time in the field of e-selling.
03:04What we are looking for here is his involvement in POGO and his business associates in his e-selling business of merchandise.
03:17It is also being investigated if it has anything to do with the shooting of a Chinese man inside a restaurant in Makati City in 2024.
03:26The man who was shot is said to be a person of interest in the kidnapping of the student.
03:32It is said that it may be related to the syndicate that came from the POGO operations.
03:36We are definite that the syndicate that is behind the kidnapping is a former operator of POGO.
03:46We are definite that the perpetrators used their former bodyguards, who are now AWOL in the service of AFP and PNP.
04:01AWOL, so they are no longer in service.
04:05For the anti-crime advocate, Teresita Angsi, what happened in Binatidio is different from usual.
04:10Very sadistic type of kidnapping only this time.
04:14It's a very inhumane way of treating the victims and we have never encountered that before.
04:22In the past, the victims that were treated like that, where they tortured the victims, they cut the finger, adults and POGO related.
04:32This one is in no way related to the POGOs.
04:36According to Angsi's group, the Movement for Restoration of Peace and Order, the number of kidnappings has increased.
04:43Since the closure of the POGOs in the country, in January, only four were reported.
04:48Most of the perpetrators are still the Chinese syndicate, but the victims are not all POGO related.
04:57The government is caught flat-footed.
05:00They are not prepared what to do.
05:03Filipino drivers are here without jobs.
05:06Not just the Chinese are without jobs.
05:08We have to be more vigilant with these things happening now.
05:12According to Interior Secretary John Vickrey Mulya, the PNP is on top of the situation.
05:17The PNP is not letting go.
05:20We have the tools necessary to fight crime.
05:23The people around me now, I vouch for them.
05:26They are doing a good job.
05:28We will never let down our guard against criminality.
05:32Based on the data of the PNP Anti-Kidnapping Group,
05:35this is the eighth kidnapping case this year.
05:37Five have already been resolved.
05:39Three are still being investigated.
05:41President Bobong Marcos has already ordered the syndicates behind these kidnapping cases to investigate.
05:48For GMI Integrated News, I am Jim Veneracion, your witness.
05:58This is GMI Integrated News for Iba't Ibang Balita.