A MEMBER of a dreaded kidnap-for-ransom group was arrested early morning Thursday in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat, following a joint operation by government security forces in the area.
According to police reports, agents of the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG), the Isulan Municipal Police Station and the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) arrested Said Giad, alias, Maestro, at around 5:00 a.m., Sampao Village, in said province.
Mr. Giad, who has a P175,000 cash reward on his head, is wanted for a string of kidnapping cases in Cotabato City including the kidnapping of five engineers working for the Philippine National Oil Company and a certain Wendell Wee.
Police intelligence said Mr. Giad has links to the organized crime group Pentagon, a kidnap-for-ransom group which was led by the late Tahir Alonto, a former commander of the Moro National Liberation Front.
The Pentagon group is believed to be involved in extortion, robbery, drug-trafficking and contract killing. It also has links to the Al-Khobar group, which is reportedly engaged in extortion and terror activities victimizing transport and business groups in central Mindanao.
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