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.