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Saturday, February 15, 2003
CIDG laments lack of NBI agents’ list
By Garry Cabotaje
THE Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) 7 will submit all documents pertaining to the bungled operation of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 7 during the resumption of the congressional hearing today.
These documents include the CIDG 7 investigation report, formal statements of new witnesses and ballistic results of the PNP Crime Laboratory 7.
Hearing
The hearing will still be held at the Sacred Heart Center on Jakusalem St., Cebu City at 9 a.m.
CIDG 7 Chief Edwin Diocos lamented that they do not have the list of NBI 7 confidential agents who were tapped by the bureau before and during the drug operation that went wrong in Mandaue City last Dec. 13.
NBI Director Reynaldo Wycoco promised during the first congressional hearing of the House committee on civil, political and human rights last month to give the committee the master list of former confidential agents in Region 7.
Rep. Loretta “Etta” Ann Rosales, the committee chairperson, expressed hope that Wycoco will again attend the third and probably the last hearing in Cebu today.
“I hope he will come because he promised his full cooperation to the committee,” Rosales said in a mobile phone interview.
Rosales and the committee staff were expected to arrive in Cebu at 8 last night.
Strafing
The hearing stemmed from the controversial strafing of a Plantation Bay resort service vehicle, which the NBI 7 operatives mistook as the one driven by suspected big-time drug trafficker Roberto “Obit” Hegremosa.
The strafing nearly killed six Plantation Bay employees, who were heading home after a Christmas party in Cordova town in Mactan Island.
Aside from Plantation Bay employees, the CIDG 7 also took the statements of seven witnesses, who include a Patrol 117 operator, a gasoline station cashier, two mobile patrol cops and three civilians.
Two of these civilian witnesses reportedly identified another civilian agent of the NBI who was seen taking part in the botched operation.
Arrested drug suspect Emmylou Gimeno and her co-accused Eli Nuñez are also expected to show up in the congressional hearing today.
Drug supplier
Gimeno, 23, from Gotianuy compound, Cebu City, identified Hegremosa, as her drug supplier.
Through her information, the NBI 7 operatives then conducted an anti-drug operation in Mandaue City, which led to the strafing of the hotel service van.
(February 15, 2003 issue)
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