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By Nancy C. Carvajal
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Businessman Celso de los Angeles, who has been charged with several syndicated estafa suits for defrauding rural bank depositors billions of pesos in deposits, was arrested, booked and detained, on Tuesday afternoon at the Quezon City Police District, based on the order issued by a judge from Ormoc City, the city's warrant chief said.

Chief Insp. Edgar Enopia said the former mayor, who has been diagnosed with throat cancer, was arrested at unit 1703 of the Cathedral Heights residential complex, (not inside the St. Luke’s Hospital, as reported earlier), along E. Rodriguez Avenue, Quezon City at 12:30 p.m., based on an order issued by Judge Clinton C. Nuevo of the Ormoc City Regional Trial Court Branch 12, dated June 28, 2010.

No bail was recommended by the judge.

De los Angeles was garbed in a loose Ralph Lauren blue pajama when arrested. A tube was seen jutting out from his shirt. He was texting his lawyers while inside a room of the warrant section inside the QCPD headquarters in Camp Karingal, where he was taken after his arrest.

(Another judge hearing one of the estafa cases against Angeles allowed him to stay at the Cathedral Heights residential complex, which is adjacent to the St. Luke’s Medical Center Complex, on his petition that he needed to be near the St. Luke’s hospital and at the same time, be isolated from other sick people, who could give him infection.)

De los Angeles, founder of collapsed business empire that included rural banks, pre-need firms, a credit card company and a car financing firm, had been diagnosed with cancer of the tonsils in April 2009 and has been undergoing treatment.

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