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Johor Acting Police Chief Deputy Commissioner, M.Kumar, said the suspect, a Malaysian, was a friend of the boy's 40-year-old Singaporean businessman father.

Kumar said the main suspect had planned to extort a sum of RM300,000 from the victim.

However, no ransom was given to any of the suspects as the police successfully apprehended the main suspect on the same day of the incident, he said.

https://www.nst.com.my/news/crime-courts...ice-thwart