Kidnapping staged to buy Valentine's gift
(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-08-30 08:57
A young man in Shanghai plotted a kidnapping and blackmailed his father for
200,000 yuan (US$24,661).
Zhang, who is unemployed, complained to his friend Tao on July 31 about
lacking money to buy his girlfriend a present on Chinese Valentine's Day. Tao
then suggested he cheat money from his father by pretending to be kidnapped.
Zhang's father called police immediately on August 1 after Tao called him to
say Zhang was kidnapped and asked for 500,000 yuan (US$61,652) as ransom. After
investigation, police caught Zhang and Tao on the same day for swindling and
returned Zhang's father about 200,000 yuan he had given Tao to get his
"kidnapped" son back.
Xinwen Evening New
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