Monday, December 17, 2007
MURDER charges were filed against the suspects in
the killing of Chinese-Filipino businessman Samson Jao
who was found dead in a remote hinterland barangay in
Iligan City sometime last September this year.
City Police Director Antonio Montalba said a press
conference will be called Monday to explain the latest
developments of the case.
According to reports, the suspects were identified as
Suralyn Minalang, a resident of 12th street,Barangay
Nazareth, as well as a certain Zaldy Mohorhombsalik and
one Rajah Anzari, both natives of Marawi City.
Police interrogated the two male suspects when they
were brought to the Marawi City Police for detention.
The two, who supposedly lacked formal education,
needed assistance to file their counter-affidavits.
Confiscated from their possession were several knives,
various automated teller machine (ATM) cards believed to
be from Jao, one cell phone and an undetermined amount
of cash.
The two men pointed to Minalang as the mastermind in the
murder, saying she had an affair with Jao and bore him a
daughter, which the victim raised as his own along with
his family.
Police theorized that Jao had several affairs and Minalang
tried to kidnap her daughter to compel the businessman to
pay support.
When the scheme failed, Minalang with the two male suspects
sought to arrange a meeting with Jao the night before his
disappearance.
Jao was playing mahjong with some friends and ate at a local
restaurant when he received the call for a meeting. Jao and
Minalang had a confrontation, then Jao was later forced to
ride in another vehicle.
Jao was reported missing by friends late last August prior
to the annual city fiesta and the city police was tasked to
search for his whereabouts.
He was later found in a grassy spot in a remote barangay in
Iligan City with various stab wounds all over his body. His
family refused to file charges for fear of reprisal from
his assailants.
It was later learned that a woman who supposedly helped
finance Jao's businesses approached Vice Mayor Vicente Emano
and informed him about Jao's alleged affairs could have
caused his murder.
The city police is said to be filing the charges of murder
in behalf of Jao's family.
By Stephen Capillas
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