Four men charged with kidnapping and holding housewife for 27 days in Batam


  • Nation
  • Monday, 27 Mar 2017

KULAI: Four men including an Indonesian have been charged with kidnapping a housewife for ransom and holding her captive for almost a month in a semi-constructed house in Batam.

The accused - three Malaysians Beh Joo Siong 31, Lee Fa Xian, 30, Soh Wei Lon, 35 and Indonesian Agustinus Ratu, 39, had allegedly committed the offence with three others who were still at large on March 21 at about 7pm at the victim's home in Bandar Putra here.

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