{"id":28106,"date":"2014-10-07T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T07:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=28106"},"modified":"2014-10-07T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T07:35:07","slug":"alleged-edsa-hulidap-mastermind-surrenders-denies-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/07\/alleged-edsa-hulidap-mastermind-surrenders-denies-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged EDSA ‘hulidap’ mastermind surrenders, denies involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This hurriedly taken eyewitness photo shows armed men surrounding a vehicle along EDSA mid-afternoon of Sept, 1. Ten policemen have been charged in relation to the highway robbery-abduction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 The purported mastermind of a brazen police-orchestrated highway robbery or \u201chulidap\u201d which took place on last September 1 voluntarily surrendered to the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Camp Crame Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The suspect, Senior Inspector Oliver Villanueva, has denied his alleged involvement in the crime. He has been placed under restrictive custody; which means he is confined to the CIDG building, under close guard.<\/p>\n

CIDG spokesperson Chief Inspector Elizabeth Jasmin said that Villanueva surrendered to the CIDG 8 p.m. of Thursday, in the company of his lawyer, Magnum Agpaoa.<\/p>\n

In a phone interview with reporters from ABS-CBN, Agpaoa said the allegations against his client are false; claiming that Villanueva was part of another police activity at the time of the highway robbery.<\/p>\n

Agpao said that although it took his client 2 weeks to turn himself in, due to security reasons, Villanueva is looking forward to voicing his side of the matter.<\/p>\n

He also noted the lack of a warrant of arrest against his client, who faces charges kidnapping, car theft and \u201crobbery in band\u201d before the Mandaluyong City Prosecutor’s Office for the incident.<\/p>\n

Nine policemen have been charged with the same, relative to the abduction and robbery of two employees of a Marawi-based businessman as they traveled along EDSA on September 1.<\/p>\n

While in their vehicle, the victims were cornered by the policemen, who forcibly took them to the La Loma police station. At the station, they were stripped of 2-million pesos in cash and their bank machine cards. The victims were detained for several hours, before they were released and told to remain silent, under threat of retribution.<\/p>\n

A photograph of the highway robbery, taken by a witness, quickly went viral on the internet; thereby alerting authorities to the crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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