THE NATIONAL Bureau of Investigation (NBI) reported on Friday that they nabbed six Chinese nationals for kidnapping fellow Chinese and bribing local agents.

The NBI-Cybercrime Division (CCD) reported that they “arrested three Chinese nationals on May 31, 2019 for Kidnapping and violation of Access Device Law.”

The suspects were identified as Junrong Jia, Xuejian Li, and Quijin Tian, who detained fellow Chinese nationals who were unable to pay debt incurred from gambling.

“These guys were apprehended by our Cybercrime Division based on the complaint of the relatives of the victims whom they abducted,” said NBI Deputy Director for Investigation Vicente A. De Guzman III in a press briefing.

“The ransom was ongoing when this was reported to our agents. Acting with dispatch, the agents proceeded to the casino and they coordinated with the officers. True enough, they saw in one of the rooms the victims,” said NBI Spokesman and Deputy Director Ferdinand M. Lavin.

In relation to the arrest, NBI said three other Chinese nationals tried to bribe the NBI-CCD agents for the release of the three kidnapping suspects.

“(W)hen the arrest process was being documented, the (other) three surfaced and tried to facilitate the release of the three others and bribed our agents for P1 million and our agents immediately hatched another operation to retract the givers,” said Mr. De Guzman.

The NBI arrested on June 1 Peter Lim Santos, Wang Liping, and Au Pang Liang on charges of Bribery and Corruption of Public Officials inside the NBI headquarters in Manila.

The NBI said the six will face the criminal charges here and will not be subject for deportation. — Gillian M. Cortez

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