THE Philippine National Police on Tuesday gave South Korean police officials a status report on the investigation into the alleged abduction and murder of Jee Ick Joo.
Jee, a South Korean businessman, was allegedly abducted in Angeles City and subsequently killed inside Camp Crame in Quezon City on Oct. 18 last year.
”I’ll just give them [South Korean police] updates on the ongoing investigation relative to the Jee Ick Joo case,” Police Chief Ronald Dela Rosa said.
He made the statement even as he blamed the wives of policemen craving material things as the main reason why their husbands were committing crimes like shaking down people.
Citing his experience as a policeman for more than 30 years, Dela Rosa said some wives were forcing their policemen husbands to engage in corrupt practices to get what they wanted.
“The wives demand too much from their husbands,” Dela Rosa said in a speech during a mass wedding of 21 policemen in Camp Crame.
Dela Rosa said Jee’s family had sent a letter requesting the PNP to exclusively handle his case.
He said he had forwarded the letter to Malacañang to avoid suspicions as to why the family wanted to exclude the National Bureau of Investigation from the investigation.
He said they could handle the investigation.
A joint PNP-NBI Task Force led by PNP Anti-Kidnapping Group Director Glenn Dumlao was formed to probe the case of Jee, who was allegedly killed by PNP and NBI officials. With Francisco Tuyay