Intensified manhunt up for ex-PNP official
Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin ordered law enforcers to locate and arrest former police Lt. Col. Rafael Dumlao III for the 2016 kidnapping and killing of Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo. Bersamin said he met with Korean embassy officials and residents about their concerns.
Dumlao is believed to be still in the country, Bersamin said. Jee was strangled inside his car parked at the Philippine National Police’s Camp Crame headquarters in Quezon City.
Jee was later cremated, and his ashes were flushed down to a toilet.
Dumlao was earlier acquitted by an Angeles City court, but the Court of Appeals (CA) reversed the decision last July.
The SC said the CA sentenced the dismissed police officer to reclusion perpetua, or 20 to 40 years in prison, without parole. Dumalo was also ordered to pay Jee’s family P350,000 in damages for kidnapping with homicide.
