KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia: The cops were booked for abducting a Filipina immigrant in high security Lahad Datu area, and demanding a ransom of PhP541,137, media reports said.
The three were arrested by Sabah CID, who also booked a fisherman. The three had anticipated that the victim will not file a report, as she was a Filipina holding an IMM13 document issued to refugees, Inquirer reported.
However, the 45-year-old reportedly Filipina filed a complaint with the police that triggered an investigation and the involvement of the three policemen was uncovered.
Sabah CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Sallehuddin Abdul Rahman was quoted as saying that checks were now being made into the three men, aged between 26 and 33.
The three, a constable and two corporals, were arrested along with a fishmonger on Monday.
Sallehuddin further said the 30-year-old fishmonger lived in Kampung Silam where the 45-year-old victim was abducted on Jan 6, the report said.
After she was freed the next day, she told police that three masked men with weapons had come to her house at about 10pm, asking for a “Haji Yusuf.”
She told them she did not know the person, and they bundled her into a white van and drove to a forested area along deserted Jalan Danum. They said they would kill her if she did pay not the ransom.
She was handed a cellphone to call her family, who brought the money to the junction of the Kampung Silam entrance and the Lahad Datu-Tawau road, about 18km from Lahad Datu town, Inquirer reported.
