P120 Million Cash Discovered in Ampatuan Compound?
Last Wednesday, police and military operatives raid the compound of Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr.’s mother-in-law in Shariff Aguak and recovered more ammunition for high-powered weapons at the compound. But there are talks that there was something else found in the area but not declared.
Several sources claimed that the operatives who raided the compound discovered, but did not declare, 120 million pesos in cold cash stored in cigarette boxes. The informants said the cash found in the compound of Samera Nor Santiago were loaded into military vehicles from Camp Crame and the intelligence unit of the Armed Forces, together with the local police force, before media and the public were allowed access to the area.
The source added that the operatives divided the P120 million among themselves. Earlier, there had been reports that huge sums of money were also found in the other mansions of the Ampatuan clan raided by the police. Then again, only rifles, machine guns, armored personnel carriers and ammunition were declared.
Senior Superintendent Bienvenido Latag, police director of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) denied the allegation last night. Latag said there were members of household present during the raid.
In the said raid the police and military operatives found several boxes of ammunition for M203 grenade launchers, M16 rifles, light machine guns, seven tripods for caliber 50 machine guns and tripods for 81 mm mortar.
Senior Superintendent Latag said a search warrant was presented to the house owners in the presence of acting Mayor Monir Ampatuan Asim Jr. of Shariff Aguak and other government officials before the raid was carried out.
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