A BUSINESSMAN has been kidnapped by his childhood friend over a botched deal in Kalilangan town in Bukidnon early morning yesterday, police said.
Lt. Col. Michelle Olaivar, PNP-10 spokesperson said a ransom demand of P2 million was received by the wife of Engineer Abdel Fahar Mapandi hours after he was abducted in Kalilangan, Bukidnon.
“We already consider this as a kidnapping case and we have identified his childhood friend as the suspect,” Olaivar said.
Mapandi’s close-in security, Jamal Banda, reported the incident to the personnel of Kalilangan Municipal Police Station.
Banda told police it was 3 in the morning while Mapandi was sleeping at the house of Omar Bayabao at Sitio Putaon, Barangay Malinao of the said town when the suspects arrived and forcibly took the victim.
In a report to the PNP regional headquarters, the police station in Kalilangan said several armed men, some dressed in PNP blue sportswear and fatigues, barged into the house of Bayabao.
The report said the suspects dragged the victim to their waiting vehicles — a black Toyota pickup, a white Toyota Hi-ace van, and a Toyota Vios and fled towards the nearby province of Lanao del Sur.
“Along the way, the victim called his wife using the mobile phone of his friend that his abductors are demanding a ransom of P2 million,” Olaivar said.
Olaivar said police units in Bukidnon and Lanao del Sur are coordinating with the family of the suspect to free Mapandi. (With reports from Joey P. Nacalaban)
