Military ombudsman to CIDG chief, 'Explain kidnapping raps'
GUMBAN
Iloilo -- Administrative and criminal charges are up anew against Police Superintendent Renato Gumban, regional chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG). And if the complainant can have her way, she would want said top cop to face death or reclusion perpetua.
Docketed as OMB-P-C-06-0112-A and OMB-P-A-06-0107-A, the latest raps as filed are now pending before the Military Ombudsman with an order for Supt.Gumban to explain his side.
Issued by Military Ombudsman lawyer Rudiger Falcis II, Director IV, said order further carried a directive that no motion for dismissal shall be allowed nor "similar dilatory motions shall be entertained."
"It appearing that the Affidavit-Complaint and supporting documents filed by complainant/s dated February 17, 2006 are sufficient in form and substance, you are hereby directed to file within ten days from receipt thereof your Counter-affidavit/s and those of your witness/es," excerpts of the Military Ombudsman order stated. "Any counter-affidavit filed without the corresponding proof of service shall be deemed as not having been filed."
Standing as complainant is Filipino-Chinese businesswoman Conchita Tan with additional charges of serious illegal detention and abuse of authority. Such were similar charges earlier lodged and awaits resolution before the Iloilo City Prosecutor's Office.
The complaints stemmed from the January 19th episode inside the plush Tan mansion where the CIDG assisted members of the Zayco family in getting surviving children of murdered couple Bobby and Cindy Zayco-Tan.
Supt.Gumban is charged alongside Zayco family members with said Tan matriarch alleging that the CIDG chief and other CIDG operatives conspired and confederated to take the minor children without any Court order or lawful authority.
"P/Supt.Gumban disarmed the uniformed security guard posted in the gate of my house without lawful authority. He instructed the armed goons with him to enter our house without permission or prior consent from me," Tan in her Complaint-Affidavit submitted to the Military Ombudsman stated.
It further alleged, "despite my pleas for them to stop their illegal activity and despite the absence of any Court order or legal authority for P/Supt.Gumban and his men to abduct the children and deprive me of their custody, they managed to take my grandnephews and grandnieces away from me. They were brought to the residence of the Zayco family in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental."