NPA eyed in slay of MAD convenor

From Malaya Business Insight (Nov 9): NPA eyed in slay of MAD convenor

POLICE are eyeing non-payment of revolutionary tax as the initial motive behind the killing of Quintin San Diego, the lead convenor of the Movement Against Dynasties in his resort in Dingalan, Aurora last Saturday.

Sr. Supt. Danilo Florentino, Aurora provincial police director, said this was relayed to him by a trusted aide of San Diego, raising the possibility he was killed by an NPA hit squad, although he refused to discount other possible motives.

Florentino said the aide told him yesterday that San Diego, 74, had received demands for revolutionary taxes on his farm in Bongabong, Nueva Ecija. He added that investigators have also come up with the same initial report.

NPA rebels usually demand revolutionary taxes from rich individuals or firms and burn down the equipment of a company if their demands are rejected.

Florentino also said they are checking if the killing has something to do with San Diego’s radio program at dwBL.

Florentio has created a Special Investigating Task Group composed of the local police, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and the Crime Lab to look deeper into the killing. He has also ordered his men to review CCTV footage in the area.

Based on their initial investigation, Florentino said two men entered San Diego’s Maligaya Resort in Barangay Caragsacan, Dingalan, Aurora at around noon Saturday and pretended to be guests. San Diego visited the resort on the same day to talk to workers working on repairs.

At around 3 p.m., Florentino said while San Diego was inspecting facilities at the resort, one of the two men left his companion at their rented cottage.

“Then suddenly one of the suspects bigla na lang binaril si Mr. San Diego,” Florentino said, adding San Diego sustained five gunshot wounds–three to the head and two in the body.

The suspects left the resort on a motorcycle.

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