By Anthony S. Allada
PHILIPPINE NEWS AGENCY
Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG 11) arrested the regional legal officer of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in an entrapment operation Thursday noon at the Apo View Hotel along Legaspi Street here.
Sr. Supt. Albert Ignatius Ferro, CIDG regional director, identified the suspect as lawyer Roderick Orallo, 54, a resident of Topaz St., Marfori Heights, this city.
Ferro said Opallo was caught red-handed receiving P50,000 from Edgar Delibo, the owner of Dok Alternatibo Herbal Medicine Clinic and a former broadcast journalist.
He said Delibo appeared at their office at 10 a.m. Thursday to complain Orallo who demanded a big amount of money to settle amicably his pending case with the BIR.
With this, Ferro formed a team composed of Chief Insp. Jojie Tabios, Insp. Rodolfo Urbano, SPO4 Florante Fornolles, PO3 Al Faustino Openda and one PO3 Palma
to conduct an entrapment operation.
Delibo agreed to meet Orallo at a restaurant inside the Apo View Hotel around 12:20 p.m. so that he can already give the money to him while operatives were sitting in a separate table.
Just as Delibo handed over the P50,000 cash to Orallo the CIDG men immediately declared the lawyer’s arrest.
Orallo was brought to the office of CIDG while an extortion case was already filed at the City Prosecutor’s Office.
The suspect refused to issue a statement on the circumstances of his arrest.
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