Probe focuses on police, gov’t execs’ link to car thefts — DILG 01/25/2011

Probe focuses on police, gov’t execs’ link to car thefts — DILG

01/25/2011
As long as the motives of the suspects in the kidnap-slay of car dealers Venson Evangelista and Emerson Lozano are not yet firmly established there is no reason to consider the cases of the victims as closed or are already nearing conclusion, Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo yesterday said.

He stressed that the deep investigation they are pouring into this case is in seeking to establish the connections that the Dominguez carjacking syndicate allegedly has with the authorities, including police officers themselves and some govern-ment officials.

Robredo said this angle on the case stemmed from prime suspect Raymond Dominguez’s long criminal history in which authorities have found out that he actually already has 31 different cases under his name but was able to escape 19 of it owing to the bail bonds he had posted.

“The first report that came to me was that Dominguez has 19 standing cases. In another report that was given to me earlier, there were actually 31 cases, 20 of which are related to car theft. In that 19 cases that were reported to me, you would be surprised because one of which was non-bailable yet he was able to post bail. That means we need to investigate and scrutinize who are behind those non-bailable offenses that were granted bail,” Robredo told a news conference in Malacañang..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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