FOUR CHINESE nationals have been arrested in Manila for kidnapping a fellow Chinese over alleged gambling debts, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) reported on Thursday. “We received information that a certain Chinese national was abducted on January 18. He was held against his will after he was able to incur P200,000 gambling debt from other Chinese nationals,” Czar Eric M. Nuqui, chief of the NBI Environmental Crime Division, said in a briefing streamed online. The suspects were identified as Chen Zhimin, Luo Canfeng, Li Jai Huang and Wang Yiping. They were nabbed after the NBI received a complaint from a Chinese employee working in the offshore gaming industry. During the operation, two other victims, who were physically maltreated and threatened with death if they could not produce P600,000, were also rescued. The victims subsequently filed a complaint against the suspects. In a statement, the NBI said the suspects have been presented for inquest proceedings before the Manila Prosecutor’s Office for kidnapping and serious illegal detention. — Genshen L. Espedido

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