KOTA KINABALU: A ransom of US$300,000 (RM988,380) is believed to have been paid to secure the release of Taiwanese Evelyn Chang An-wei, who was held hostage by Abu Sayyaf gunmen in the southern Philippines island of Jolo.
Though officials in the Philippines and Taiwan have maintained that the 58-year-old Chang was rescued from her captors who snatched her from Sabah’s Pom Pom island on Nov 15, the ransom amount was widely speculated in the Taiwanese media.
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