MANILA: Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) rescued on Tuesday, June 28, an Indian businessman who was held for a PhP30 million ransom after the mastermind carelessly used the victim’s phone to negotiate with his family, leading authorities to their hideout.
Victim Chaman Lal said he suffered regular beatings from his captors since he was abducted in San Pedro, Laguna on June 18, Inquirer.net reported.
His nephew Shiv Chauhan, 23, from Punjab, India, admitted plotting the kidnapping because “I wanted the money”, he said.
Shiv who spoke Filipino recently arrived in the Philippines. He enjoined the help of his pregnant Filipina girlfriend, three more Indians and another Filipino to abduct Lal.
They carried out the kidnapping on June 18, a day after Lal’s father died in India.
“I was shocked when I found out because I even helped him when he arrived in the Philippines. He would come to my house for food and I would feed him. I never thought he’d do this to me,” Lal was quoted as saying in Inquirer.net.
The NBI rescued Lal in a house in Novaliches, Quezon City, hours after giving the fake ransom money of PhP1.6 million that operatives used to arrest the suspects.
