PARIT – A man jumped from a moving car to escape yesterday after being robbed and held for 10 hours by four men in a kidnapping incident in Teluk Perang here.
In a statement yesterday, acting Perak Tengah police chief Nik Rosdi Nik Yahya said the 25-year-old victim was driving his Honda HRV around Teluk Perang at around 8.30pm on December 29, when he was stopped by four men in a Proton Waja.
He said three of the suspects got down from their car, with two of them introducing themselves as policemen, and wanted to conduct a check on the victim and his car.
“The victim cooperated and agreed to be checked, before being handcuffed and his head covered with a black mask. He was taken into his car with three of the suspects, while the remaining suspect followed them in the Proton Waja.
“The victim was then taken for a long ride and beaten up. He was forced to hand over his personal belongings, including two mobile phones, a wallet containing personal identification cards, a bank card and RM200 in cash.”
Nik Rosdi said while all the suspects were unaware, the victim, who heard a sermon from a mosque early that morning was determined to open the car door and jump out to save himself.
He said the victim ran to the mosque and sought help from the public before being taken to the Taiping police station.
He added that the Perak Tengah police headquarters received information about the victim at around 7.30am, and discovered that the man is an individual police were looking for following a report made by a woman early that morning.
“Around 1.40am, the Parit police station received a report from a woman, aged 25, stating that she received a call from her husband around 9.30pm on Tuesday informing her that he was involved in an accident in Simpang Papan, and asked for RM50,000 as compensation for the vehicle he had rammed.
“The line then went dead. The woman then received another call stating that the price had dropped to RM20,000 and asked her to transfer it immediately to her husband’s Maybank account, after which the line went dead again. She was unable to reach her husband’s mobile phone after that.”
Nik Rosdi said the woman and her father went out to look for the victim, but failed to find him. They then lodged a report at the police station and efforts were then made to locate the husband.
Nik Rosdi urged those with information to assist police in the investigation and to come forward if they locate a Honda HRV with the licence plate AKC 939. – Bernama, December 31, 2020
