Malate bar owner robbed by former Pasay kagawad

The owner of a prominent entertainment club in Malate has filed robbery charges against a former barangay kagawad (councilman) of Pasay City who allegedly snatched his diamond necklace and a companion’s clutch bag containing P60,000 payroll money in broad daylight last week.

Cafè Malate owner Bobby Velasco and architect Eric Reyes told the Paco Police Precinct on Friday that at around 3 p.m. on January 8, he visited the ongoing construction of a new club branch on Agoncillo Street, also in Malate, when he and Reyes went out from the construction site to have a good glimpse of the new edifice from the outside.