The son of internationally renowned actress-director Sylvia Chang Ai-chia was rescued yesterday from a gang of kidnappers, who were carrying the boy in a suitcase.
Nine-year-old Oscar Chang, who had been held for 10 days, was freed when police arrested three men outside the Kowloon Newton Hotel, Mongkok before dawn. He was unhurt.
Oscar was abducted near his school, La Salle College in Kowloon Tong, on July 3, and a report made to Kowloon City police station the same day, sources said.
Chang, 45, and her family are understood to have received a ransom demand for $15 million shortly afterwards. The operation to rescue the boy took place after an arrangement to pay the ransom was made, although no money changed hands.
Officers from Kowloon East Regional Crime Unit staked out the hotel in Boundary Street before the operation. Last night, crime unit detectives were questioning three men, aged between 17 and 20, arrested in connection with the kidnapping. At about 10.30pm, a fourth man, believed to be a relative, arrived at crime unit headquarters at Ngau Tau Kok police station to help detectives with their investigations.
Oscar, who was resting in hospital last night, is Chang's only child. The father is Taiwanese businessman Billy Wong Ching-hung, who is Chang's second husband. She has two stepsons from Mr Wong's first marriage. Chang's first marriage, to Hong Kong-based journalist Bob Liu, ended in 1984.
