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10 ‘executed’ in Laguna bank rob

June 9, 2008

CABUYAO, Laguna - Police widened the manhunt for the suspects in the Rizal Commercial Bank Corp. robbery in Cabuyao, Laguna May 17 in which 10 employes and guards were executed by the robbers.
Calabarzon police director Ricardo Padilla said Isagani Pastor, customer relations manager of the Cabuyao branch, succumbed to gunshot wounds, bringing to 10 the number of victims in the incident which is described as the bloodiest bank robbery in the country’s history. Pastor, who was under heavy guard while being treated at the St. James Hospital in Cabuyao, could have identified the suspects in the robbery. Padilla though said they still have other witnesses who could help
identify the perpetrators.
“We will never stop hunting those who are responsible for the crime. Relentless follow-up on the case gained significant headway as the suspects responsible in these atrocities have already been identified,” according to Padilla who
refused to elaborate.
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Avelino Razon
Jr. ordered the relief of Superintendent Moises Pagaduan as Cabuyao police chief and appointed Chief Inspector Wenceslao Anore as officer-in-charge.
Razon expressed confidence the investigators will finally break the case
and soon arrest the suspects in the robbery.
The RCBC management has put a P1-million reward on top of the combined
P2-million bounty put up by authorities for the immediate arrest of the
suspects.
RCBC officials said they are focusing their investigation on the
Bank’s logbook where the names of the suspects had been entered.
Baltazar Aguilando, the security guard killed by the gunmen inside the
bank, had reportedly entered in the logbook the names of several people
who introduced themselves as lawmen.
The logbook stated the “policemen” entered the bank at 8:35 a.m. Friday.
A witness, identified as a certain Sheila, had claimed seeing her
companion, Ferdinand Bernard Antonio, being approached and assisted by a
man wearing a black jacket while entering the bank.
Sheila said she was inside her service car waiting for Antonio to emerge.
After 30 minutes of waiting, she noticed a commotion and responding
policemen arriving at the bank. Sheila claimed she later learned that a
robbery had taken place inside and Antonio was among those killed.
Nine bank employees and a security guard were lined up and shot dead by the robbers. They were found sprawled on the floor of a branch of the
RCBC in Barangay Pulo here after the bank failed to open as scheduled at 9 a.m., triggering the suspicion of customers who alerted the police.
Police identified the victims as Roberto Panganiban Castro, the bank’s
branch manager; Ferdinand Bernard Antonio, bank teller Benjamin Manalo
Nicdao Jr., bank commercial manager Bernardo Lapaan Jr., operations
assistant Noel Olaes Miranda, janitor Juan Marza Layva and security
guard Aguilando Baltazar. The two female victims were Olga Gonzalez and Teresita Umayao.

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