COPS TO TRACE MONEY TRANSFER

CPPO director Edgar Alan Okubo requests money transfer firm to divulge transaction of companion of slain cop

The money transfer firm where the companion of slain PO2 Romeo Bolaño had transaction was requested to help in the investigation to determine the motive behind the attack.

Cebu Provincial Police Office Director Edgar Alan Okubo sent a letter, requesting the commercial establishment to divulge the transaction of SPO2 Maricor Aliganga last Tuesday afternoon.

Bolaño was onboard his red car with his friend Clifford Zamora and was parked along the national highway in Barangay Linao-Lipata, Minglanilla at 1:45 p.m. They waited for Aliganga.

A green sports utility vehicle (SUV) suddenly stopped on the driver’s side of the red car, where Bolaño was sitting, and opened fire.

Bolaño succumbed to at least six gunshot wounds in the left portion of his chest. Zamora suffered a gunshot wound on his left leg.

Aliganga was relieved from her post in Naga City Police Station pending investigation. She is now assigned in CPPO-Personnel Holding and Accounting Unit (PHAU) pending result of the investigation.

Investigators will look into reports that Aliganga and Bolaño had a relationship.

Okubo said they will also check the reports about Bolaño’s alleged connections with self-confessed drug lord Franz Sabalones.

Bolaño’s transfer outside Central Visayas reportedly happened after Sabalones named him as one of the police officers who accepted drug money.

Bolaño was assigned to the Cordillera police last September 2016. On the following month, he was transferred to the PHAU of Camp Crame while facing investigation on his alleged involvement in illegal drug trade.

He was investigated by the Internal Affairs Service for his alleged connections with illegal drug trade and other violations.

“He should be in PHAU. Why was he here?” said Okubo, who obtained a list of more than 100 former Central Visayas police officers who were relieved for their alleged involvement in drug trafficking.