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Negotiator arrested in Philippines TV crew kidnapping: police MANILA (AFP) - A local official who helped negotiate the release of a kidnapped television presenter has been arrested and is to be charged in the abduction, Philippines authorities said Thursday. In a bizarre twist to the nine-day hostage crisis, Alvarez Isnaji and his son Haider Isnaji were detained Wednesday, one day after ABS-CBN television broadcaster Cecilia Drilon, her cameraman and a local guide emerged from the jungle. The elder Isnaji is the mayor of Jolo's Indanan town, from where the TV crew was kidnapped on June 8. He said he had used his son to act as an emissary to the abductors. "Mayor Alvarez Isnaji and his son Haider Isnaji are under the custody of (the police) and this afternoon charges will be filed against them for kidnapping," national police chief Avelino Razon told a news conference. Both would be charged as principals to the crime, he added. The elder Isnaji said he had negotiated the group's release, along with that of a second cameraman who was freed last week, after paying token amounts to kidnappers initially described by the police as members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic militant group with ties to Al-Qaeda. But statements gathered from the freed hostages "unravelled the fact that Mayor Alvarez Isnaji is involved in the kidnapping," Razon said, without elaborating. Razon said police have also arrested a second local man, Mameng Bitaw, whom he said had agreed to guide the journalists to an interview with a senior Islamic militant leader in Jolo on June 8. The guide disappeared while en route to the rendezvous, and the journalists fell into the hands of the kidnappers, Razon said. Another local guide, university professor Octavio Dinampo who was among those taken hostage and later released, was not under investigation, he added. The father and son were arrested in Zamboanga City as they accompanied the television crew from Jolo. Though national government officials said no ransom was paid to release the hostages, sources close to the negotiations said up to 18 million pesos (406,000 dollars) exchanged hands. Alvarez Isnaji said he paid 200,000 pesos to the gunmen as payment for the victims' "board and lodging" -- a local euphemism for ransom. He did not say who provided the money.
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