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    ARMM cops return Bedol arrest warrant unserved


    By Alcuin Papa, Beverly T. Natividad
    Inquirer
    Last updated 01:21am (Mla time) 11/10/2007


    MANILA, Philippines -- Chief Supt. Joel Goltiao seems to be wishing that wanted men would not go into hiding so that the life of a policeman would, somehow, be easier.
    Goltiao said the police in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) had returned to the Commission on Elections--unserved--the arrest warrant for Lintang Bedol but that they had not stopped looking for him.
    "It seems he is one step ahead of us," the police commander for the ARMM said Friday, two weeks after the Comelec issued a warrant of arrest for the Maguindanao election supervisor.
    "He is now hiding, and that's the problem. If he isn't hiding, we would have had him by now," Goltiao told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
    Election lawyer Leila de Lima, who has confronted Bedol over the issue of cheating in the May senatorial elections, smells conspiracy.
    Someone got him out
    "This is Garci escapade part two," De Lima said. "If he is out of the country already, I don't believe that he did it by himself, may nagpatakas diyan (someone got him out). People are behind it."
    De Lima was referring to the disappearing act which former Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano pulled in 2005 after he and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo were accused of conspiring to rig the results of the 2004 presidential election.
    The Comelec ordered Bedol's arrest after convicting him of indirect contempt for his failure to appear at hearings on allegations about cheating in the senatorial elections in his area.
    Search goes on
    "We have not received any orders to terminate the search," Goltiao said. "We also put in writing all the circumstances surrounding the serving of the warrant."
    He said the police did their best to locate Bedol.
    Earlier, Goltiao theorized that Bedol was no longer in the ARMM region, otherwise they would have been able to monitor his movements.
    Tougher Comelec action
    Goltiao denied reports that the seemingly slippery poll official was in military or police custody.
    Goltiao had said his men went to Bedol's residence in Cotabato City last Oct. 30 to serve the warrant but he was not around. Bedol's wife said her husband left their house a few days earlier in the company of armed men.
    Election lawyer Sixto Brillantes said the Comelec should not have allowed Bedol to get out on bail, or should have imposed a bail stiffer than the P15,000 it had set.
    "The Comelec should have anticipated that Bedol would not allow himself to be incarcerated for six months," Brillantes said.
    Record of disappearing
    "The Comelec should not have allowed him to go, given his record of disappearing in Maguindanao. They should not have allowed him to go back to Maguindanao because that is his territory," said Brillantes.
    The Comelec regional director for the National Capital Region, Ferdinand Rafanan, said the poll body had done its part.
    "Bedol's evasion of arrest is not a lapse on the part of the Comelec. It is a purely police matter now," he said.
    Bedol's lawyer, Andrei Bon Tagum, professed his own ignorance of his client's whereabouts.
    "Your guess is as good as mine," he said.
    Last phone talk
    Tagum said his last phone conversation with Bedol was last week when they talked about Bedol's options under the law following the order for his arrest.
    He said he had advised his client to wait for the Supreme Court ruling on their pending appeal on his contempt charges before the Comelec.
    "We only talked about legal matters. As his lawyer, I will not tell him to evade arrest. It will be unethical for a lawyer to do that," Tagum said.
    He said Bedol had not contacted him since and he had been unreachable by phone for the past few days.
    Tagum dismissed speculation that Bedol was under the protective custody of powerful political backers in Maguindanao.
    "Jumping into those conclusions will only mean that he's responsible for the fact that he is missing. We must consider other possibilities," Tagum said.

    Source: www.inquirer.net
    Nov. 10, 2007



    Anu na naman ito? Dapat irelieve si Chief Supt. Goltiao! Tapos issue ng shoot to kill order kay Bedol




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    Nasan na kaya si Bedol? dapat nakakulong na yan a

Bedol arrest warrant unserved!