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+ December 11, 2020 THE brains behind the murder of lawyer Joey Luis Wee could be someone who is “powerful and influential.”
This was the theory of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 7 after its investigators found out that the alleged killers were flown in and out of Cebu despite the strict quarantine protocol brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.
NBI 7 Director Rennan Augustus Oliva said someone financed the suspects’ transportation.
“Definitely, there is a financier. It is an expensive trip because they came from Luzon,” he said.
Believing Wee’s murder on Nov. 23, 2020, was related to his job, the investigators will determine which case that led the victim to his death, said Oliva, a lawyer.
December 11, 2020 A FORMER Philippine Army officer who is the current supervisor of a security firm in Laguna has been identified by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) as the man who gunned down lawyer Joey Luis Wee outside his office in Cebu City on Nov. 23, 2020.
The gunman, Fausto Edgar Peralta, is one of the six suspects in Wee’s murder, according to the NBI.
Peralta was arrested in Cabuyao, Laguna last Dec. 8. The suspect reportedly heads a security agency in Cabuyao, Laguna, NBI Laguna’s Daniel Daganzo told reporters in a press conference on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 10.
The suspect was turned over by the NBI Laguna office to the NBI 7 Thursday; on the same day, Peralta and the other suspects were charged with murder before the Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office.