Five persons of interest in the killing of beauty pageant contestant Geneva Lopez and her Israeli boyfriend Yitshak Cohen are in police custody, Interior and Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos said on Monday. In a press conference, Abalos said two of the POIs are former police officers who were dismissed from the service in 2019 and 2020. “May naaresto ang ating kapulisan na tatlong tao na nasa custody nila.
..Yung tatlong taong binabanggit ko ay nasa kustodiya ng kapulisan sa ibang kaso.
Pero malaki ang kinalaman nila dito po sa kasi ni Geneva at Yitshak,” Abalos said. (Police have arrested three people who are in their custody..
. The three people I am referring to are in police custody for another case. But they have a major involvement in the case of Geneva and Yitshak.
) (When these three people were arrested, we had witnesses and evidence that led to the location of an unmarked grave that contained the remains of Geneva and Yitshak.) Two more persons of interest are currently at large. Motive Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) chief Police Major General Leo Francisco said ex-cop Michael Guiang mortgaged a property to Lopez.
When the beauty contestant bet wanted to claim the land, Guiang refused. Guiang told Lopez that the property has another buyer who is one of the arrested persons of interest, former policeman Rommel Aboso. Francisco said the two ex-cops plotted to kill the couple.
“Sinabi ni Guiang na may buyer din yung lupang sinangla niya at.
