The police paid a ransom of 1 million US dollars—The Philippine police turned the kidnapping case of a Chinese teenager, involving finger chopping, into a farce.

A confidential source within the Philippine police revealed to The Manila Times that the "rescue" of a 14-year-old Chinese student from the British School of Manila was not a heroic police operation, but a pre-arranged handover with a ransom of one million US dollars.The source stated that a busines