Yingxi (in black, second from right) and Runbao (in blue cap) being brought to the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court to face charges of staging a kidnapping. - Photo courtesy of Sinar Harian
KUALA LUMPUR: Two students from a Singapore university pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court on Tuesday (May 13) to staging a fake kidnapping to trick one of their mothers into paying a RM2.9mil ransom.
Zhang Runbao, 23, and Ye Yingxi, 18, both Chinese nationals, were jointly charged with attempting to deceive Ye's mother, Cheng Zhiwen, by making a phone call and sharing a video purporting to show Ye being abducted.
