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In the past two days, almost everyone's eyes have been on two Chinese executives who were kidnapped and torn up in the Philippines.
Xia is Chinese, and Sun is Chinese-American.
At present, the relevant departments of China, the United States, and the Philippines are all concerned about this matter.
Because the severity of this incident is beyond our imagination.
Even an industry insider who does medical device business in Southeast Asia and often travels back and forth to the Philippines said:
Although she used to hear some strange and messy things from others, it was the first time she had heard of such a terrifying and bloody thing in the past 20 years of doing foreign trade business.
As this matter exploded on the Internet, especially a few days ago, the Philippine media reported that the immigration bureau arrested a pregnant woman on suspicion of kidnapping in a high-end apartment in Pasay City, Metro Manila.
She is said to be one of the leaders of the kidnapping and ransom ring, and we are getting closer and closer to the truth of this kidnapping case.
Let's briefly talk about how the two were tied up.
Although Xia and Sun are both Chinese executives and are still peers, they did not know each other until they attended the European Radiology Conference in Paris, France, in May.
Who knows, after meeting at this meeting, the two hit it off at first sight, and they also made an appointment to have several meals, and Sun even introduced a dealer "Li Na" from the Philippines to Xia.
This "Li Na" and Sun also met at the meeting, and like them, they spoke Fujian Mandarin, and when they met their fellow countrymen in a foreign country, they both felt very cordial, and then several people added contact information to each other.
"Li Na" told the two that her boss's surname was Hong, a well-known local Fujian businessman who had started in real estate, but due to the recession of real estate in the Philippines, he established a medical company, which currently has annual sales of more than 50 million US dollars.
"Li Na" looks dignified and intellectual, and she is also a treasure of the medical device industry, and many professional names are also readily available, which makes the two Chinese executives who have seen countless industry leaders trust them.
"Li Na" also told them that her company plans to cooperate with large and medium-sized public and private hospitals in Manila in 2024, and start winning other important provinces in 2025......
To this end, "Li Na" also asked Xia and Sun for quotations, and invited them to go to the Philippines to investigate the project together, and then arrange special personnel to pick them up and hotels.
Subsequently, in the name of the company, they were also issued with an official invitation letter and the relevant qualifications of the company (which later turned out to be forged).
Sun and Xia were very moved when they saw it, thinking that their respective companies were going to expand their overseas business, and this was a good opportunity, so they agreed.
Who knew what awaited them was a nightmare.
After the two returned from Paris, they dealt with some corporate affairs non-stop, and then booked a direct flight from Beijing to the Philippines at 12:55 on June 20.
The flight landed at Manila International Airport in the Philippines at 18 o'clock, what the two didn't expect was that they not only did not wait for "Li Na", but waited for a few biao-shaped men, and when the two were still in a state of blindfolding, they were controlled by the biao-shaped men to get into the car.
According to relatives and friends, the two lost contact shortly after arriving in the Philippines, Sun is 1.88 meters tall, has to play basketball almost every weekend, and is very strong.
And they were two people walking together, if this kidnapping had not been carefully planned in advance, one or two people would definitely not have been able to take them away.
We don't know what happened to the two of them that night, but the next day, the vicious robbers contacted their relatives and opened their mouths.
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Xia told his wife on the phone that he needed to immediately send 15 million electronically if he lost money playing cards in the club, and then changed his mind to ask for 25 million.
Sun's relatives and friends also received the same voice, but they were recognized by relatives and friends as soon as possible, because Sun never gambled, and he didn't even buy lottery tickets.
After the kidnappers' tricks were discovered, they didn't pretend anymore, and directly said that the two had been kidnapped, and if they wanted to get out alive, they had to pay the ransom according to their wishes.
Sun's family was still on the kidnapper's phone call asking for ransom when they heard a voice suspected of being Sun.
Coupled with the fact that the phone calls between the two have not been able to get through, relatives and friends gradually believe the fact that they have been kidnapped.
But the ransom that the kidnappers wanted was too high, and after many negotiations, Xia's family agreed with the kidnappers that the ransom amount was 3 million, and said that they needed time to raise money.
Fearing that there would be any accidents on the way, the family still notified the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines, and the embassy also contacted the local police and reported to the police at the first time, and has been paying close attention to the detection of the case.
At 7:23 on June 23, Sun also made a final voice call, saying that he could drink water by calling 200,000 yuan first.
At 3:13 p.m. that day, Sun sent another message saying, "Mom, can you call some first?" ”
It's just that this message may not have been sent by him.
But after the Xia family finished the 3 million ransom according to the kidnapper's instructions, the other party lost contact, and the two showed no trace of being released.
But just when the Philippine police had not made a major breakthrough, on June 24, the bodies of Xia and Sun were found tied up in Patitnan Village, Saguenai Township, Guimapho Province, southern Philippines.
The bodies of the two were intact, with no signs of knife wounds or gunshot wounds, but there were traces of brutal abuse, and it was obvious that the two had been abused before, and after a preliminary forensic investigation, the two were poisoned to death.
Moreover, the kidnappers were very professional, the body was obviously cleaned, and no useful information such as fingerprints was found on the body.
As for why it was ripped up after paying the ransom?
According to insiders, the kidnapper who spoke to the victim's family on the phone was also a man suspected of speaking with a Fujian accent, and the kidnapper had told them that the "life" of an account was only 8 to 10 minutes, and if only a few hundred thousand calls were made at a time, the account would be invalidated.
It may be because the time to raise money is too long, and the kidnappers have a strong sense of anti-reconnaissance, knowing that they called the police, they are afraid that the police will settle accounts after the release of the people, so they can only receive the money and kill it.
Subsequently, Lundell Shi, head of the fugitive search team of the Immigration Bureau, also said that this was a kidnapping case specifically targeting Chinese.
Of course, this is not the first case of a Chinese being kidnapped in the Philippines recently.
Shortly after the kidnapping, on June 2, near Manila, the capital of the Philippines, a limousine carrying three Chinese and one Malaysian was intercepted by two motorists, handcuffed and dragged into a white van.
Fortunately, two of the Chinese managed to escape and call the police, but the others were beaten by their kidnappers and released after paying a ransom of about 310,000 yuan.
What is even more scary is that the two people who are suspected of kidnapping on electric vehicles are not robbers, but local police.
So, how messy is the Philippines? I don't need to say more, right?
The reason why the Philippines has frequent kidnappings, and even once regarded Chinese as a cash cow, is because they feel that Chinese, especially rich Chinese people, are very rich.
Fortunately, after the kidnapping incident fermented in China, and there was also an American among them, after the pressure of the foreign ministries on both sides, the Philippine police did not dare to slack off, worked hard, and actively solved the case, and finally made significant progress in the case.
They caught a pregnant woman.
The pregnant woman played a key role in solving the case.
Because the pregnant woman is a fraudster and an important person in the fraud gang, the fraud group to which he belongs is related to the kidnapping of these two Chinese company executives.
It is likely that the police asked what happened to the pregnant woman.
Because it didn't take long for the photo and identity of the game-maker "Li Na" to be exposed.
According to media reports, "Li Na" is also one of the leaders of the kidnapping and ransom gang, from Taiwan, China, and is mainly responsible for luring potential victims into taking the bait.
As for the online rumor that the arrested pregnant woman is "Li Na", the relevant regular media and the Philippine side did not confirm it, but said that "at present, 'Li Na' is not in the Philippines".
The Philippine police have locked up "Li Na" and at least one other man involved in the case through photo comparison, and other people involved in the case are also being actively arrested.
In addition, according to insiders, "Li Na" is by no means the first time to commit a crime, but a habitual offender, "This name is involved in more than one kidnapping case." ”
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Although "Li Na" has not been caught yet, as soon as they heard that she was from Taiwan, netizens couldn't sit still and shouted "I see".
Because, Taiwan was once known as the "paradise of fraud", and in recent years, fraudsters in Taiwan Province have been reported frequently.
Just look at a few sets of data:
In 2014, according to the statistics of China's Ministry of Public Security, nearly 100,000 people in Taiwan made a living by defrauding mainlanders by telephone, defrauding the mainland of 8 billion yuan every year, accounting for 75% of the total fraud amount of 10.7 billion yuan that year.
On January 13, 2018, the Chinese working group and the Philippine police carried out a unified network collection operation in Manila, Vigan and other places, and arrested 151 suspects of telecom fraud, of which 78 were from Taiwan Province, China, accounting for almost half.
On February 12 and March 9, 2019, the Philippine Immigration Bureau sent 13 and 2 Taiwan Province telecom fraud suspects to Beijing, respectively.
No wonder a few years ago, mainland netizens wrote such a limerick poem:
Nine out of ten bays are cheating, and one is in training.
Taiwan is rich in fraudsters, of course, there are economic reasons, there are also social reasons, and there are some unsolvable land area problems, resulting in overcrowded prisons, and fraudsters cannot be locked up at all.
Therefore, there is an unwritten rule: release people without punishment for minor crimes.
This has led directly to the rampant fraudsters.
Not only do they lie outside, but they also lie to their own people.
According to public information, in 2023, fraud cases in Taiwan will cause losses of up to NT$8.8 billion (nearly 2 billion yuan) to ordinary people.
The total population of Taiwan is only more than 23 million, which is equivalent to an average of three or four hundred yuan for each Taiwanese in 2023.
Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and the amount of fraud and fraud that has happened to them is certainly much more than that.
In a survey conducted by an organization in Taiwan, only 6% of local people said they had "never encountered fraud".
It can be seen how rampant fraud is in Taiwan?
What makes people think about it even more is that they have extended their hands directly to the mainland, especially the rich Fujian region.
Because the two places are almost the same clan and clan, their accents are very similar, their customs and habits are similar, and they have money, so they have become the focus of their attack.
To this end, they have come up with a lot of tricks.
For example, what are "winning the lottery", "asking for children with a lot of money", and people who pretend to be "public prosecutors and lawyers......
For a long time, the police traced down, and the uniform pattern of these scams were:
The mastermind of the criminal syndicate is in the Taiwan region, the victims are in the mainland, but the place of the crime is in another country.
In recent years, after the domestic crackdown on fraudsters has been intensified, many fraudsters living in Taiwan have to find another place.
As early as the 1980s and 1990s, Manila, the capital of the Philippines, which was rated as the world's kidnapping capital by the American media, became a paradise for these people.
With the development and growth of these people, the kidnapping of Chinese has gradually become a local black industry chain.
Coupled with the inaction of the local government and the police, and even many police officers are kidnappers, this makes the fraud and kidnapping everywhere there.
So, who said that "the moon is rounder abroad than at home"?
I really advise everyone, it's okay or don't go abroad, especially Southeast Asia.
Except for Brunei and Singapore, the attitude of those small countries towards the Chinese is really not as safe and friendly as you think.
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