Philippine authorities have arrested a sub-leader of gang
linked to the 2011 kidnapping of Australian adventurer Warren Rodwell in the
southern province
of Zamboanga Sibugay
Police said Hasim Calon alias Husien, who belongs to the
kidnap-for-ransom group of Barahama Alih, was arrested by security forces over
the weekend in his hideout in Tenan village in Ipil town.
“Hasim Calon was involved in several kidnapping incidents in
the province, particularly the abduction of Joel Indino in Ipil on January 29,
2011 and Richard Warren Rodwell, an Australian national who was abducted in
December 2011,” said Superintendent Rogelio Alabata, a regional police
spokesman.
He said policemen, backed by army soldiers, who took part in
the operation, seized crystal meth from Calon, who is also a notorious drug
dealer in the province. Calon’s group also has links with the Abu Sayyaf
and other rebel groups in the southern region.
Just early this year, police forces killed Waning Abdulsalam
– who was a former leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front – in a fire
fight in the village of Singkilon in the town of Naga
Abdulsalam was one of the most wanted criminals in southern Philippines Pagadian City
In 2012, security forces also raided Abdulsalam’s hideout in
Naga and captured three of his followers following a clash in the village of Mamagon
Last year, a Filipino policeman SPO2 Jun Malban alias
Michael Zoo, also tagged as involved in Rodwell’s kidnapping was arrested in
Lahad Datu in Malaysia ’s
eastern state of Sabah where he fled after
being linked by authorities to the crime.
Rodwell, a former soldier in the Australian army, was
kidnapped by gunmen who posed as policemen from his seaside house in Ipil town
and freed on March 2013 after his Filipino wife Miraflor Gutang paid $94,000
ransom to the Abu Sayyaf, which originally demanded $2 million.
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