KOTA KINABALU: A former civil servant who staged his own kidnapping was arrested as he was withdrawing the “ransom payment” from an automated teller machine.
The man, who was sacked recently, used a new cellphone number and sent a text message to his 22-year-old wife, saying that her husband was being held by a group of men for a RM8,000 ransom.
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