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BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
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Wednesday, June 7, 2017
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MANILA – Police arrested the father of two Maute group fighters in Barangay Sirawan, Toril district in Davao City on Tuesday morning.
They were still investigating if Cayamora Maute, father of brothers Omar and Abdullah, was one of Maute group’s top leaders.
Lieutenant Colonel Nestor Mondia, a checkpoint commander for Task Force Davao, stopped a Toyota Grandia van after noticing that one of its six passengers (Cayamora) was wearing a surgical mask, said Chief Superintendent Manuel Gaerlan, Davao Region police director.
Cayamora confirmed his identity, Gaerlan said. “Of course, we will have other identification procedures later on through his fingerprints and other scientific means of identification.”
Police also discovered a .45-caliber pistol and a grenade inside the van.
At the time Cayamora was with his second wife, Kongan Balawag, daughter Norjanah Maute, son-in-law Benzarali Tingao, and van driver Aljon Salazar Ismael.
A radical Islamist group that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, the Maute group continued to fight government troops in Marawi City.
Earlier in Marawi, the Philippine Marines discovered cash and checks worth P79 million inside a house occupied by the Maute group, according to the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Some P52.2 million worth of cash and P27 million worth of checks in one of the houses in Barangay Mapandi that served as a sniper’s lair, said Lieutenant Colonel Jo-ar Herrera, spokesperson for the Armed Forces’ 1st Infantry Division.
An investigation is hoped to trace the trail of the cash and checks and establish whether the Maute group or one of the residents who fled the ongoing clashes in the southern city owned them, Herrera said.
“We will not speculate here. We will wait for the facts after the investigation,” he said in a televised news conference. “The cash and checks were found during a house-to-house clearing by the Marines in the village.”
In a previous speech President Rodrigo Duterte claimed that the Maute group was being funded by foreign terrorist groups and illegal drug money from drug lords and “narco-politicians.”/PN
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