ILOILO City – Mayor Adolfo Jaen of Leganes, Iloilo denied the reported robbery at his house on E. Lopez Street, Barangay Luna, Jaro district on May 16.
“The claims as reported publicly are false (and) malicious,” he stressed in an affidavit.
It was reported, based on a police blotter at the Jaro police station, that antique furniture, a large wooden sculpture of the Last Supper and two stone statues valued at P500 thousand were stolen from Jaen’s house.
“(A)ll these items as reported to be subject of robbery were not robbed since they are my properties,” clarified Jaen.
According to the Jaro police, the police blotter was based on the report of Dr. Marcelino Jaen who complained he was robbed.
But Mayor Jaen cleared the personalities mentioned in the police blotter and reports: Dr. Noe Jaen, Randy Cabalon of Barangay Poblacion, Leganes and Arnaldo Anas Jr. of Barangay Napnud, Leganes.
“(S)o much actual and moral damages against these mentions persons had been done,” according to Mayor Jaen.
He also insisted the house that was the subject of the police blotter and report “is still my property.”
In fact, he was present in his Jaro house that May 16, he stressed.
“I was the one who had requested these people Noe Jaen and the rest to accompany me to my house at 460 E. Lopez Street, Barangay Luna, Jaro to take out and bring such items to Salvamar Resort, Poblacion, Leganes, Iloilo,” read part of the mayor’s affidavit.
He added: “Such items as stated as subject of the robbery in the news and police blotter were my own. It is of public knowledge that I own the house and all items therein…”
According to Mayor Jaen, he only requested Dr. Noe Jaen, his brother and personal physician, to accompany him to the house “because my personal nurse was absent at that time.”
He denied employing force to enter the house. His caretaker opened the house “at my instance…”
“No padlock or any door were destroyed or forcibly opened. No force upon things were made to enter the house,” read part of the mayor’s affidavit./PN
