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flyingcolours
Joined: 04 Oct 2011 Posts: 73
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:59 pm Post subject: A tourist nation that isn't so "touristy" (?) |
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http://ph.news.yahoo.com/philippine-police-wanted-korean-kidnap-214440665.html
Philippine authorities have ordered the arrest of ten policemen accused of kidnapping four South Korean tourists in a plot involving their countrymen tour guides, the Manila City government said Monday.
The capital's mayor, Alfredo Lim, also ordered that the 10 be dropped from police rolls after they went into hiding on February 14, around the time the kidnapping incident occurred.
"The incident is a tremendous and serious flaw on the good name of the police department," a statement issued by Mayor Lim's office said.
The order came after a South Korean tourist guide was arrested in his home country last week for allegedly conspiring with the Filipino police officers in the abduction.
The guide, identified by Lim's office as Choi Jang Tae, arrived in Manila with 12 South Korean tourists for a four-day vacation and enticed four of them to go shopping with him last week.
As they were walking to a popular mall, the four tourists were accosted by armed men who forced them into a van, the statement from the mayor's office said.
The four were then told by their captors they would be charged with illegal possession of drugs unless they paid $30,000. Another South Korean tourist guide later facilitated the transfer of the money, the statement added.
This South Korean has since been arrested in the Philippines, the mayor's office added.
Law-enforcement officials have assured that all the policemen involved in the crime will be charged and the money they extorted will be returned to its owners.
Lim, a former Manila police chief, also ordered a revamp of Manila police anti-narcotics units to prevent further incidents.
The Philippines has long struggled with corruption and abuse among the police which has sometimes led to foreign tourists being victimised.
In 2011, five Philippine policemen were sacked after they forced a German tourist to buy laptops for them by threatening to charge him with terrorism. |
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Captain_Fil
Joined: 06 Jan 2011 Posts: 604 Location: California - the land of fruits and nuts
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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Beware of the honey trap, too.
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kungfuman
Joined: 31 May 2012 Posts: 1749 Location: In My Own Private Idaho
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:02 am Post subject: |
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Captain_Fil wrote: |
Beware of the honey trap, too.
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whats the honey trap? please share |
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tttompatz
Joined: 06 Mar 2010 Posts: 1951 Location: Talibon, Bohol, Philippines
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:01 am Post subject: |
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kungfuman wrote: |
Captain_Fil wrote: |
Beware of the honey trap, too.
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whats the honey trap? please share |
Hook up with a cute honey at the bar, mall or where ever then a couple of days later get clipped for engaging in immoral acts with a minor.
Pay up or deal with the consequences.
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kungfuman
Joined: 31 May 2012 Posts: 1749 Location: In My Own Private Idaho
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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^^^ ahh, I see.
And the legal age is... 18? |
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BigBuds
Joined: 10 Aug 2010 Posts: 1
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:37 am Post subject: |
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Heard of a guy who caught up in a similar honey trap but this one being a husband and wife set up.
She picked him up in a bar and then a few days later he was arrested for adultery. He was locked up but she wasn't. He had to pay $10,000 if I remember correctly to get his arse out of prison.
He had no idea she was married. |
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kungfuman
Joined: 31 May 2012 Posts: 1749 Location: In My Own Private Idaho
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:56 am Post subject: |
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It was featured on "Locked Up Abroad" a National Geographic show |
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KarlaMontelibano
Joined: 11 Sep 2013 Posts: 17
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:41 am Post subject: |
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Philippines used be safe, but now it's polluted with crocodile politicians and policemen wannabe's |
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kungfuman
Joined: 31 May 2012 Posts: 1749 Location: In My Own Private Idaho
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:54 am Post subject: |
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^ Don't worry - soon there will be Chinese warships anchored everywhere |
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