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LOCAL police are looking for six men who were allegedly responsible for murdering a German national and his Filipina wife and throwing them into the sea in Barangay Maño, San Remigio, northern Cebu.

Police Major Ian Macatangay, San Remigio police chief, told SunStar Cebu that the six suspects were known robbers in the town.

Of the six suspects, two were already identified by police after they were able to secure testimony from witnesses.

The manhunt operation began after police recovered the corpses of Joseph Hanz Wind, 62, and his Filipina wife, Zenaida, 62, at the coastline of Barangay Maño, San Remigio on Thursday morning, November 25, 2021.

When police recovered their bodies, the couple were already heavily decomposed while their feet were tied.

A fisherman was able to uncover the bodies while foraging for shellfish at the coastline of the barangay.

Macatangay believed that the couple were robbed and tortured before they were killed.

Signs of torture were found on the body of Wind's wife.

He said the wife was reportedly tortured by the suspects so that she would divulge the combination of their safe, which contained some of their money.

Wind, however, was immediately murdered after he attempted to fight back against the suspect, Macatangay said.

Macatangay added that they tried securing footage from the couple's CCTV camera installed inside their house but the server used to record the footage was already gone, believed to have been removed by the suspects.

Following the incident, the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) organized a Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) to identify and arrest the suspects behind the murder.

Police Colonel Engelbert Soriano, CPPO director, said he had to create the SITG as it was a policy to establish one whenever a foreign national was involved in a crime.

Aside from the local police in San Remigio, the SITG will be composed of investigators from CPPO's Investigation Branch, Scene of the Crime Operatives (Soco) and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) Cebu Province. (GPL, AYB / JKV)


https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1914299/cebu/local-news/6-men-behind-gruesome-murder-of-german-national-wife

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R.I.P..

Zoveelste buitenlander welke om zeep wordt gebracht omdat men denkt dat iedere buitenlander stinkend rijk is. (Soms doet men zich ook zo voor.)

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Soms helpt de politie?

19/12/2021
Four police officers were arrested while their civilian companion was killed in a shootout with lawmen after they allegedly broke into the house of a Japanese man in Pasig City and stole at least P10 million.

https://twitter.com/PhilippineStar/status/1472439048316796931

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Taguig police station chief axed over P30 million robbery
Neil Jayson Servallos - The Philippine Star
December 20, 2021 | 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines — The commander of a police station in Taguig was relieved from his post yesterday after four of his subordinates allegedly robbed a Japanese man of at least P30 million in cash and gadgets in Pasig City on Saturday.

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Dionardo Carlos said he sacked Maj. Nimrod Balgemino Jr., commander of the Taguig police sub-station 1, to prevent "undue influence in the investigation."

Carlos ordered the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) to probe S/Sgt. Jayson Bartolome, Pat. Kirk Joshua Almojera and Corporals Merick Desoloc and Christian Jerome Reyes.

"I want to get to the bottom of this incident and unmask all persons involved in the crime," Carlos said.

According to the NCRPO investigation, the police officers and their civilian cohort, John Carlo Atienza, broke into the Japanese's house in Barangay Kapitolyo and held the victim and his partner at gunpoint.

The suspects opened the victim's vault and allegedly stole around P30 million in cash and valuables.

The Japanese alerted police officers who were on patrol in the area.

Police said the suspects tossed away at least P1.3 million in cash as they escaped on four motorcycles and reportedly fired at responding officers during the chase.

Atienza died in the shootout while Bartolome was wounded.

The suspects abandoned their motorcycles and tried to escape on foot. Reyes and another civilian accomplice, AJ Mary Agnas, were apprehended during a follow-up operation, police said.

Desoloc and Almojera turned themselves in to the Taguig police. They were turned over to the custody of the Pasig police.

Probers said they recovered from the suspects part of the loot amounting to P8.9 million. Desoloc allegedly yielded P100,000.

Four loaded 9mm pistols, a Nokia cell phone and a Yamaha motorcycle were confiscated from the suspects, police said.

NCRPO chief Maj. Gen. Vicente Danao Jr. said they have launched a manhunt for two other suspects: dismissed policeman Ferdinand Fallaria and Ruwel Galang.

Taguig Mayor Lino Cayetano said they would conduct a separate probe after investigators reported that a city hall employee was involved in the incident.

Cayetano said he would form a special investigation commitee to look into the robbery.

   


https://www.philstar.com/nation/2021/12/20/2148978/taguig-police-station-chief-axed-over-p30-million-robbery

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22/12.2021

DUMAGUETE CITY — A British national was robbed after giving relief goods to families affected by Typhoon Odette (international name: Rai) in Negros Oriental.

The victim was identified as Graham Beard.

Beard is residing at Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, and went to Brgy. 2 in Bais City to give some water and food packs to individuals affected by the super typhoon.

According to Jhonus, not his real name, who saw the incident, the relief operations were just so smooth. People are flocking in Beard's car to receive food packs and free water.

"He was busy giving relief goods while a group of men was coming to him closer. At first, he gave these men relief goods, they went back to their houses and come back again to the foreigner. Then they are signaling each other. It seems they already planned it when they knew the foreigner is new to the place," he said.

After Beard emptied his storage full of relief packs, he noticed his wallet was gone.

At first he tried to look at his car but seems he remembered that it was just in his pocket. He looked on the ground to check if it fell. But he couldn't see it so he drove to the police station."

Jhonus did not know the names of those men he thought might be involved in the robbery incident as "their faces were new in our barangay."

"I felt so embarrassed. The man was here to help us but in the end, he was victimized," he said

Police Staff Sergeant Junmar Tag-at of Bais Police Office told the INQUIRER that Beard came to their office to report that incident.

Taga-at felt pity for Beard as the foreigner is so worried about his identification cards inside his wallet.

Taga-at said Beard never disclosed how much money was inside his wallet.

"What he is after only is his BDO cards, Philippine residency ID, and US and PH driving IDs."

Taga-at said individuals who plan to organize relief operations should coordinate with authorities for safety.

Bais City is one of the towns in Negros Oriental that was badly hit by Typhoon Odette. The city now ran out of water and food and is calling for donations.

Read more: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1530979/british-robbed-after-giving-relief-goods-to-victims-of-odette-in-bais-city#ixzz7FmX3z04P
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