Grudge looked into the murder of the father. Richmond Nilo

The Philippine National Police identified the suspected brain in the murder of the father. Richmond Nilo as uncle of an altar server that the murdered priest had sued for molestation on behalf of three other altar servers.

On Monday, PNP Chief Executive Oscar Albayalde – with Director Roel Obusan, Chief Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), and Supt. Amador Corpus, director of the Luzon Police Center – announced the arrest of Manuel Digap Torres for Possession of Explosives and identified him as the "financier" of Nilo's contractual murder

The murder was allegedly committed by the group of Omar Lumbang Mallari aka "Bulik", the alleged gunman who was arrested two weeks ago.

Mallari, who had been arrested under a permanent warrant for robbery and homicide, had presented a confession naming other people involved in the murder of Nilo. Among those he implicated was Ronaldo de la Rosa Garcia, Torres's Companion who had also submitted a statement saying that Torres had asked him to find an assassin to kill the priest.

Mallari, in the presence of his mother and a public defender, recorded his video confessions, shown at Monday's press conference at PNP headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City.

Accused of rape

"Garcia says that [Torres] was ang ry with father [Nilo] because [his nephew] Christopher could no longer go to seminary to be trained as a priest because the father had filed cases of rape against [Christopher] ", Corpus said in Philippine

" Minor victims wanted to give up "

The rapes would have occurred in March 2017. Christopher Torres is on bail [19659010] "According to the affidavits of [Mallari] and Garcia, they were He says that the suspects were hired in May or April

Nilo, 44, was shot dead while He was preparing to say Mass in the Nuestra Señora chapel of Las Nieves (not Nieve, as written on the facade of the chapel) in the village of Mayamot, Zaragoza, province of Nueva Ecija, in the night of June 10.

The shooter, outside, shot through the window of the ch The murder of Nilo sparked public outrage and calls from the Catholic Church for a stop to attacks on clerics who criticized President Duterte's brutal war on drugs.

Mark Ventura, 37, was shot dead after celebrating mass in Gattaran, Cagayan province, on April 29. Retired priest Marcelito Paez, 72, was ambushed and killed in Jaen, Nueva Ecija, on 4 December. Both were activists

Payoff

Rey Urmeneta Jr. was shot dead while returning to his home in Calamba City, Laguna Province, on June 6. He survived.

Corpus said that the first reward, 40,000 pesos, was made three or four days later.

Another P40,000 was paid later but the last P20,000 was not delivered because Mallari had already been stopped.

Mallari was arrested in Arayat, Pampanga province, on June 22 after the CIDG traced it as the owner of the Nissan Sentra (plate No. THB 437) captured by security cameras on board from Nilo's car to Zaragoza before the priest's attack.

Security cameras also captured the suspect's car in another city. used by the shooter to flee after the murder.

Obusan said that the Nissan Sentra was burned and "chopped" for coins after the murder of Nilo. The people involved in the destruction of evidence have been arrested, he said.

Garcia, who went after the arrest of Mallari, and another suspect identified as Marius Torres Albis, who went on Sunday night, Corpus.

The motorcycle rider, Allan F. Maniacop, the owner of the motorcycle identified as Michael Ocampo, is still being sued, and riders of another motorcycle would have been used for the case of Bernie M. Limpio . and Rolly D. Sigua

"Why is Mallari confessed?" Because of the physical evidence that was the car, he could no longer deny it. "Corpus said the investigation was continuing, other suspects being prosecuted and investigators investigating the possible reasons for Nilo's attack other than Torres's grudge

Other reasons

"We are looking at this track at from now on, but again, it is not yet sure to say that other possibilities are excluded.The investigation will look at other suspects to get a better idea of ​​the reason, "said Corpus.

On the one hand, he said, the weapon used to kill the priest was "involved" in the murder of a conductor conductor also in May in Nueva Ecija .

Albayalde describes the arrests as a "commendable act of the Philippine National Police" despite the blunder of authorities involving Adell Roll Milan.

Milan was arrested and identified as the shooter on June 14

Following the identification and arrest of Mallari, the case against Milan was withdrawn and he was ordered by a Cabanatuan court on June 29. – JAYMEE T. GAMIL