He said: “There is information that is leading to whoever is the suspected mastermind.”Īzurin did not disclose the supposed role of Villamor, who has been taken in protective custody by the police. But at this time, we are not at liberty to start revealing what those are because we really need to come up with the definite investigative before we reveal it as it might jeopardize the ongoing investigation,” Azurin said in an interview with ANC on Tuesday. “There are revelations that were given to us.
He said Jose Villamor, a cousin of Palaña and also an NBP inmate, gave information to investigators that could help the case.
said the investigation was getting closer to the identity of the mastermind.
Closer to mastermindĭespite the death of one of six men who were allegedly involved in the killing of Mabasa, PNP chief Rodolfo Azurin Jr. However, Palaña’s father on Sunday provided the Philippine National Police with a birth certificate which named him Cristito Villamor Palaña. He was also listed as Jun Garcia Villamor in the carpeta system, the database of persons deprived of liberty. In his extrajudicial confession, Escorial identified the middleman as a certain Crisanto Palana Villamor.īuCor and the court records showed that his name was Jun Globa Villamor. There has been some confusion about the true name of Palaña, who started serving a life term in 2019 at NBP for murder, frustrated murder, and violation of the election gun ban in 2013. The police and the Mabasa family believe that Palaña could have identified the mastermind of the killing. “We will question the administrative aspect of it,” he said in a phone interview with the Inquirer. Journalist Roy Mabasa, a brother of the slain broadcaster-vlogger, said his family was planning to file cases against Bantag “because of the circumstances leading to the death of the first middleman” while in prison.
Police said suspended Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director General Gerald Bantag, who had been criticized by Mabasa in his “Lapid Fire” program, was one of about 160 “persons of interest” in his killing. She said her brother and Escorial knew each other as they grew up together in the same village in Javier, Leyte province, and Christopher Bacoto, the alleged “second” middleman, was their friend from a neighboring village.Įscorial told investigators that aside from Palaña and Bacoto, he had three other accomplices-brothers Edmon and Israel Dimaculangan, the backup gunmen and a certain Orly, or Orlando, who drove his getaway motorcycle. She clarified when asked that her brother referred to the “office in Bilibid.”
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