PNP chief orders new INC probe

Director-General Ricardo Marquez, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has ordered the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) to reopen an investigation of claims of former Iglesia ni Cristo (INC or Church of Christ) minister Lowell Menorca that church leaders were behind his alleged abduction.

Menorca has recanted his earlier statement denying that he and his wife and daughter were being held against their will by INC officials. He claimed three policemen from the Quezon City Police District were involved in his alleged abduction.