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By Anthony Vargas, Reporter
THE Quezon City police said
Tuesday that it had made a breakthrough in the case of slain
congressional candidate Vicente Rabaya Jr.
Supt. Frank Mabanag, chief of the
Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection
Unit, said his team has in its custody a woman that could provide
vital information in the Rabaya case.
The body of Rabaya, who was
running for congressman in the Fourth District of Quezon, was found
Saturday in a van in White Plains subdivision. He had been shot
twice.
“One of our team is now in Camp
Nakar in Lucena and he is holding a vital witness to the case,”
Mabanag said in a weekly forum in Camp Crame.
The woman, whom Mabanag
identified only as “Jane Doe,” was supposed to meet with Rabaya
hours before his body was discovered inside a white Toyota Fortuner
that he had rented in Malate, Manila.
Rabaya and the woman were
supposed to see each other at the Ali Mall in Cubao “before two
men entered his vehicle and took him in to another place to be
killed,” Mabanag said.
He said the woman was hired by
Rabaya’s party, the Nationalist People’s Coalition, a week
before he was killed.
The woman might be brought to
Manila for questioning.
Mabanag did not say if the woman
was a witness or a suspect, but he was confident she could help
solve the case faster.
“We will solve the case of
Butch Rabaya in a matter of days,” Mabanag said, adding that as
far as he is concerned politics was behind the killing.
A love triangle was earlier
considered a motive.
Just before Rabaya’s body was
discovered by a security guard, witnesses said they heard gunshots
and saw two men get out of the Fortuner and board a white Mitsubishi
Adventure.
Rabaya was an incumbent member of
the Quezon provincial board.
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