The primary suspect in the abduction and murder of South Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo has denied that he withdrew cash from the victim\u2019s ATM account, but footage from a closed-circuit television camera shows otherwise.
Citing Jee\u2019s wife Choi Kyung-jin, a presentation by the Philippine National Police\u2019s Anti-Kidnapping Group during Thursday\u2019s Senate probe said there were four ATM withdrawals on the BPI master card of the victim on the night he was abducted in their Pampanga home, with P20,000 in each transaction.
But Jee\u2019s house help Marisa Morquicho, who was abducted with the businessman last Oct. 18, positively identified SPO3 Ricky Sta. Isabel as the man caught in CCTV withdrawing from Jee\u2019s ATM.
\u201c\u2018Yung pumasok sa loob ng bahay ay si SPO3 Sta. Isabel,\u201d Morquicho told senators.
Asked by Senator Rissa Hontiveros to identify if it was Sta. Isabel who was also shown on the video withdrawing money from the ATM, Marquicho answered in the affirmative.
READ: Maid identifies cop who abducted her, slain Korean trader boss
But Sta. Isabel denied all the allegations being hurled against him, adding that it was Atty. Rafael Dumlao who plotted and executed Jee\u2019s killing.
\u201cSi Dumlao talaga ang nagmamaniobra nito (It was all Dumalo\u2019s work),\u201d Sta. Isabel said.
Jee was taken from his home in Angeles, Pampanga last October 18, 2016 by policemen allegedly led by Sta. Isabel in the guise of a drug arrest. It was later revealed that the businessman was killed inside the police headquarters in Camp Crame the same day he was abducted. IDL<\/p>\n