By the Bohol Chronicle
A provincial board member and two lawyers exposed letters containing "death threats" for their supposed role in the inquiry involving a city councilor for alleged embezzlement of funds that are intended for legal services of policemen who are facing counter-charges of arrested felons.
Provincial Board Member Aster Apalisok-Piollo first revealed on Tuesday a letter threatening to kill her and her family due to her role in investigating the reported unauthorized and unliquidated financial transactions of city kagawad Danilo Bantugan using funds of the Legal Assistance for Effective Law Enforcement Program (LAELEP).
However, a few days later, lawyers Mitchell John Boiser and Salvador Diputado also bared to the Chronicle having received a similar letter that threatened to kill them and their family.
The handwriting of said letters are evidently alike which led the recipients to believe that these came from the same person.
Piollo's chief of staff, Engr. Bong Bullecer, provided the Chronicle copies of a letter from a certain Max Jumamoy of Inabanga, Bohol that was sent through postal mail.
The letters sent to Boiser and Diputado bore a similar penmanship with the one received by Piollo but its return address is Danao, Bohol.
The letter, received by the board member's staff at the Capitol yesterday, told Piollo to "stop her investigation" into the alleged unauthorized and unliquidated financial transactions of City Kagawad Danilo Bantugan utilizing funds of the Legal Assistance for Effective Law Enforcement Program (LAELEP). Lawyer Bantugan was chairman of the LAELEP committee of the IBP Bohol when the purported irregularities were discovered.
Boiser, currently president of the IBP-Bohol, was warned that he is being followed and if the situation allows, he would be killed.
The LAELEP is a joint project of the provincial government and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Bohol chapter to provide legal services to policemen who are facing counter-charges from criminal suspects they arrested.
Since the provincial government provided some P450,000 for the project, the IBP-Bohol referred the alleged irregularities in handling of funds to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) to investigate.
Piollo chairs the SP committee on public accountability that is looking into the matter.
The letter threatened Piollo that if she continues with the investigation, the letter sender would kill her and her family.
It said further that the board member is being followed wherever she goes.
Bullecer and Boiser presented copies of the "death threat" letter to the police yesterday and entered this into the blotter of the City Police Station.
According to Bullecer, the letter may be threatening the lady lawmaker but definitely it will not deter her from finding out the truth into the alleged financial irregularities.
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