Saudi authorities have indicted 30 Filipinos in Jeddah for alleged involvement in murder, gambling, lottery and money laundering, informed sources told Arab News. They include seven Filipinos who were allegedly behind the killing of three compatriots in the city.The sources said the cases of the 30 Filipinos would be transferred to a court within a few days in order to issue verdicts on the basis of Shariah and Saudi laws.
I don't know where to start, so I'm not going to.
Preliminary investigations proved that the seven, who mutilated the remains of three Filipinos after murdering them and burying them in different places in the Industrial Area of Jeddah on April 4, were part of an international gang engaged in money laundering and illicit gambling, the sources said.
I now have some questions for .com if he shows up.
They killed their rival, who was the head of another gang engaged in illegal activities, as well as his assistant and driver, one source said. After questioning some 20 Filipinos, police learned that the murders might have occurred as a result of a gambling turf war.
The gang had been active in the north and south of Jeddah and its operations included an illegal numbers betting game known as “jueteng” in the Philippines.
A Philippine Consulate official told Arab News that he believed the gambling gangs were part of the network of the infamous jueteng lord in the Philippines, Bong Pineda.
So someone in the Philippines, about 1/4 of the way around the planet, was running a gambling operation in Saudi Arabia? And having a turf war with another gang from the same place?
Reports of the arrest of 52 Filipinos in connection with the murder case had sent shockwaves across the Philippines. Saudi Ambassador to Manila Muhammad Ameen Wali reassured Manila that the Kingdom would take care of Filipino workers and provide them with protection and a good working atmosphere.
Wali expressed his desire to end all problems related to Filipino workers as quickly as possible. “The crimes committed by a few Filipinos will not affect the situation of other Filipinos,” he stressed. Only a small number of Filipinos are believed to be involved in crimes such as murder, robbery, smuggling, gambling and running brothels.
And now about these people who always manage to get the bad guys surrounded.
The arrests came after a series of raids conducted by security forces in Jeddah. According to one source, police conduct at least five raids every month with the participation of 1,200 officers from 12 departments including patrol police, special forces, criminal investigation officers, Passports Department officers, traffic police, members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Red Crescent Society and the Electricity Company.
I thought the Red Crescent Society was their version of the Red Cross. It participates in police raids there? As does the Electricity Company? (What side of the law is Fargo North on these days? I dunno, I would have figured him for the Rapid Action Battalion.)
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The article continues with a recounting of how much money, according to official estimates, Filipino guest workers send home.