EXTORTION GANG * Philippines - Another Mindanao bus firm threatened by extortion gang
Another local bus company has been threatened by the al-Khobar gang, an extortion group blamed for the series of bomb attacks on bus firms operating in southern and central Mindanao regions
Digos City,Mindanao,Philippines -The Inquirer (Mindanao,PHIL), by Orlando Dinoy -18 Sept 2008: -- ... The police Senior Superintendent Cesario Darantinao, Davao del Sur police chief, declined to name the bus company "to avoid undue alarm among the riding public"... The gang, led by Salahuddin Hassan and Abdul Malik Salih, has been blamed for attacks against units of the Weena Bus Co., Yellow Bus Co. and Metro Shuttle, in which nearly two dozen people have died since 2006. Authorities said the al-Khobar, which is based in Central Mindanao, had demanded protection money from the transportation firms... Metro Shuttle, owned by the family of Tagum City Mayor Rey Uy, has repeatedly rejected the al-Khobar’s demand for about P50,000 per month... Darantinao said bus companies should order their drivers to stop picking up passengers from the roadside between points of destination... Darantinao urged the people to give information that could lead to the arrest of the al-Khobar members, for whom a total bounty of P1.7 million has been raised...
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