{"id":239722,"date":"2019-12-10T21:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T02:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=239722"},"modified":"2019-12-10T21:18:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T02:18:32","slug":"pnp-to-probe-alleged-kidnapping-in-makati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/12\/10\/pnp-to-probe-alleged-kidnapping-in-makati\/","title":{"rendered":"PNP to probe alleged kidnapping in Makati"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_239724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-239724\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pnp-akg-lt-col-joel-saliba-cltc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-239724\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pnp-akg-lt-col-joel-saliba-cltc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pnp-akg-lt-col-joel-saliba-cltc.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pnp-akg-lt-col-joel-saliba-cltc-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-239724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cIt&#8217;s just all over social media. And since yesterday (Monday) and until today, no complainant has approached the AKG. But in the absence of a complainant, because it&#8217;s viral on social media, we will deploy a team to investigate and to coordinate with the Makati City Police,\u201d Lt. Col. Jowel Saliba, AKG spokesperson, told reporters. (PNA file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine National Police-Anti Kidnapping Group (PNP-AKG) on Tuesday said it would conduct a probe on the alleged kidnapping of a Chinese woman in Makati City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s just all over social media. And since yesterday (Monday) and until today, no complainant has approached the AKG. But in the absence of a complainant, because it&#8217;s viral on social media, we will deploy a team to investigate and to coordinate with the Makati City Police,\u201d Lt. Col. Jowel Saliba, AKG spokesperson, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The Makati City Police Office is currently investigating the incident that transpired along Paseo de Roxas on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>A video, which went viral over social media, has shown a woman who was being dragged into a vehicle by still unidentified suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the alleged kidnappers are also Chinese nationals and that no one was able to help the victim as they feared the suspects were armed.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. Gideon Ines, Makati Police investigation unit chief, said authorities are still searching for the CCTV footage in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Ines said police found documents and identification cards in the scene.<\/p>\n<p>He said they are still tracking the whereabouts of the suspects involved.<\/p>\n<p>According to the AKG, from January to November 2019, they have recorded a total of 43 kidnapping incidents related to casino-debt of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO).<\/p>\n<p>Saliba said the majority of the victims, as well as the suspects in the kidnapping cases, were Chinese nationals.<\/p>\n<p>He said the suspects would resort to abduction in order to force the victims to pay them and surmised that many incidents were amicably settled by the involved parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine National Police-Anti Kidnapping Group (PNP-AKG) on Tuesday said it would conduct a probe on the alleged kidnapping &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":239724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239725,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239722\/revisions\/239725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}