With strict limits on how much cash they can take out of China, Chinese tourists are targets for loan sharks who turn nasty when their clients cannot pay up. Victims are often tortured in order to extort relatives to wire money to the kidnappers.<\/p>\n
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Just last week, seven Chinese national were arrested by the country\u2019s National Bureau of Investigation for allegedly kidnapping a fellow countryman from a gaming facility in Paranaque City.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Sometimes, kidnappings turn deadly. In February 2017, the body of a kidnap victim was pulled from a creek in General Trias City.<\/p>\n
Despite her confinement, de Lima remains an incumbent Senator of the Philippines, and last year filed a bill, SR 953, that aims to tighten regulations for the country\u2019s gambling industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn SR 953, which I filed last year, I\u2019ve mentioned that the country\u2019s loose regulatory policies to monitor casino establishments make the Philippines more susceptible to other crimes and illegal activities that are not limited to kidnapping, including money laundering and fraud,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Philippine casino sector is thriving and so is Chinese tourism — facilitated by closer relations between the two countries, fostered by President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s pro-China policy after years of squabbling over disputed territories in the South China Sea. But opposition politicians want the Duterte administration to do more to combat a worrying trend of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":100797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Philippine Senator Leila de Lima Speaks Out Against Casino Kidnappings<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n