PNP cover-up BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 06/24/2010

PNP cover-up

BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 06/24/2010 If Sr. Supt. Antonio Gumiran and Sr. Insp. Jeffrey Briones Uy of the Philippine National Police (PNP) are still wearing their uniforms today, it is because of their friends in the Department of Justice (DoJ) who chose the path of least resistance in sweeping under the rug the administrative charges for conduct unbecoming of police officers that had been lodged against them, rather than prosecuting them in court and having them sent to jail. Just to refresh the memory, Gumiran and Uy both of whom were active duty officers at the time were caught in 2004 by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Bureau of Immigration (BI) in the company of Jason Aguilar Ivler (remember him, too?) while inside a cabin of a small passenger ship that was about just to leave the Port of Zamboanga for Sandakan, Malaysia. Official reports said that the two police officers allegedly tried to bribe the NBI and BI agents with $5,000 so that they would forget they ever cast eyes on Ivler and allow him to peaceably leave the country through the southern backdoor. Back then, Ivler was being sought by the Pasig Metropolitan Trial Court (MeTC) in connection with the fatal vehicular smash-up wherein the Toyota Prado SUV he was driving jumped over the center island of the C-5 highway onto the path of the Isuzu Trooper being driven by Undersecretary Nestor Ponce Jr. thus instantly killing him. The arresting officers reportedly rejected the bribe offered to them and brought the suspect Ivler back to Manila and immediately turned him over to the custody of the court. As fate would have it, Ivler later jumped bail and went into hiding; he was later recaptured by the NBI, who had launched a nationwide manhunt for him resulting from the road-rage killing of the son of another Malacañang functionary, but not after a spectacular shoot-out inside the residence of his mother in the upscale neighborhood of Blue Ridge, Quezon City...... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100624com4.html

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