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Macao police nab man for online bombing, death threats

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-24 14:07

MACAO: Judiciary Police (PJ) of the Macao Special Administrative Region arrested a man for his alleged involvement in online extortion and threats, including threat of killing the SAR chief executive, the local Macao Post Daily reported Wednesday.

The newspaper quoted a PJ spokesman as saying that the 38-year- old local suspect posted three threats in the online forum in January 2008, saying he would blow up the Judiciary Police Headquarters, Macao Tower, the office of the chief executive and the Bureau of Telecommunications Regulation, unless the government pays him 10 million patacas ($1.26 million).

In May 2008, the suspect posted a threat in the forum again, saying that he would give 100,000 patacas ($12,658) to anyone who grabbed the Beijing Olympic torch on its tour of the nation, the spokesman said.

The suspect then issued another online threat in October 2008 that he would set the Judiciary Police Headquarters and a downtown bank alight.

According to PJ, the suspect also indicated in the forum between late last month and last Sunday that he would try to kill the chief executive and the director of Judiciary Police with an incendiary device.

The suspect was taken into custody at his flat in Taipa on Monday, following a year-long investigation which was hampered by the suspect's technical expertise when covering his digital tracks.

The suspect has meanwhile been transferred to the Public Prosecution (MP) for further investigation and possible arraignment on a range of criminal charges.