Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
The Phnom Penh Post
Kidnappers freed the son of a three-star general yesterday in what his father claimed was a case of mistaken identity that led the assailants to drop a US$500,000 ransom demand.
So Akno, the son of Lieutenant General So Phan, the deputy director of the general commissariat of the National Police, was kidnapped on October 8 by a group of armed men who police said then demanded $1 million ransom for his release.
But So Phan said that, having already halved their demand, the kidnappers released his son yesterday at 2am without extorting a cent from him.
“I am very happy, as my son has been released from a group of kidnappers, and he was not tortured or injured. I did not pay any money to the kidnappers,” he said, adding he would not pursue the perpetrators through the courts or police. He denied rumours he had paid US$500,000 to secure his son’s release.
But a police official from the Ministry of Interior, who asked to remain anonymous, claimed the reduced ransom had been paid by So Phan to free his son.
“We now are working hard to arrest these kidnappers to bring them to justice,” he said, adding that the group had been sighted bundling So Akno into a Lexus when they originally kidnapped him from his house in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district.
Touch Naruth, chief of Phnom Penh Municipal Police; Ya Kim Y, chief of Phnom Penh Municipal Military Police; Mok Chito, chief of the Ministry of Interior’s Criminal Police Department; and Khieu Sopheak, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
4 comments:
With his salary of a few hundred dollars a month, how the hell can he manage to pay $500,000 ransom?
Kuoy Pichet
3:16PM
did you thought of counterfeit dollars? idiot!
You are stupid or what?
Since the kidnappers drove the Lexus SUV.
I wonder who was behind the kidnapping; he must be a high ranking untouchable big shot.
The whole drama fits perfectly with Khmer says " Peal See Peal". The son of the high ranking police general was kinapped by bunch of thuges who were driving Luxus SUV. I have gone to the country couple of time and I leaned that when you see someone dirves or rides a luxirious car like Luxus SUV, that person is not an ordinary citizen. So this is clearly "Peal See Pleal" like
2 + 2 = 4. There is no doutb about that.
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