China to help arrest Filipino kidnapper

China to help arrest Filipino kidnapper

MANILA (Reuter): China has promised to help locate and deport a suspected Filipino-Chinese kidnap-gang leader believed to be hiding in Beijing, Philippine Vice-President Joseph Estrada said yesterday.

Estrada said the suspect, William Teng, was sighted in Beijing and elsewhere in China last year after he left the Philippines.

Teng is suspected of involvement in drug trafficking and in the 1993 kidnapping in Manila of a Taiwanese businessman, who was released after his family paid a ransom of 10 million pesos ($370,000), Estrada told reporters.

Estrada visited China last week and met Public Security Minister Tao Siju. Two senior Filipino police officers are on trial for alleged involvement in the kidnapping.