Police cooperate to nab Taiwanese kidnappers
By Xu Fang |
March 7, 2011, Monday
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THE police in southern China's Guangdong Province and Taiwan joined to capture 10 suspects engaged in a kidnapping case involving a huge ransom of NT$400 million (US$13.63 million), Yangtze Evening News reported yesterday.
The hostage, a Taiwan businessman surnamed Xia who had been kidnapped for 52 days, has been rescued.
Xia, 40, lived in a top-grade residential community in the Tianhe District of Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, with his wife.
He had economic disputes with others when he did business in Taiwan over the past few years, and one person he argued with asked the Taiwanese mafia to recover debts.
The Taiwan gangsters colluded with gang members on the mainland to install a pinhole camera in Xia's home last December, and rented an apartment in another building in the community to -monitor Xia's life, according to the newspaper.
Xia was kidnapped on January 8 as he was returning home. His wife received a phone call and an e-mail on January 16 which demanded a ransom of NT$400 million.
Xia's wife collected 30 million yuan (US$4.57 million) to remit to a Hong Kong bank account set up by the gangsters at the end of January, but the kidnappers couldn't draw the money out as the account was frozen, the report said.
Xia was held on a Taiwan cargo ship during the period which traveled at sea for at least 6,300 kilometers and kept changing positions to avoid capture.
When the kidnappers realized they couldn't get the ransom, they decided to give up. They abandoned Xia on a deserted island on February 28 in Penghu Lake.
The hostage, a Taiwan businessman surnamed Xia who had been kidnapped for 52 days, has been rescued.
Xia, 40, lived in a top-grade residential community in the Tianhe District of Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, with his wife.
He had economic disputes with others when he did business in Taiwan over the past few years, and one person he argued with asked the Taiwanese mafia to recover debts.
The Taiwan gangsters colluded with gang members on the mainland to install a pinhole camera in Xia's home last December, and rented an apartment in another building in the community to -monitor Xia's life, according to the newspaper.
Xia was kidnapped on January 8 as he was returning home. His wife received a phone call and an e-mail on January 16 which demanded a ransom of NT$400 million.
Xia's wife collected 30 million yuan (US$4.57 million) to remit to a Hong Kong bank account set up by the gangsters at the end of January, but the kidnappers couldn't draw the money out as the account was frozen, the report said.
Xia was held on a Taiwan cargo ship during the period which traveled at sea for at least 6,300 kilometers and kept changing positions to avoid capture.
When the kidnappers realized they couldn't get the ransom, they decided to give up. They abandoned Xia on a deserted island on February 28 in Penghu Lake.
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