ILOILO City – The family of an Ilonggo slain in South Korea hopes to get to the bottom of their loved one’s death and for his remains to be brought home soon.
The skeletal remains of Angelo Claveria, 34, of Cabatuan, Iloilo were found in Hwaseong city, Gyeonggi province in South Korea on April 3.
His coworkers were allegedly bullying him, according to his fellow job applicant, Claveria’s sister Jeanette said.
“Naka-chat sia sa ka-batch niya nag-apply didto nga gina-bully sia sang mga kaupdanan niya,” said the sister.
The family has a suspect in Claveria’s death but refused to disclose any name pending the investigation of South Korean authorities.
Jeanette, along with mother Angelita and older sister Mayette, went to the Iloilo provincial capitol last Thursday to seek help from Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. in speeding up the repatriation of their sibling’s remains.
Jeanette previously disclosed that they learned someone had emptied her brother’s bank account. She believed the culprit was the killer, too.
Claveria’s skeletal remains were found in a septic tank of a water purifier plant, the Korea Times reported. They have not yet been sent to the Philippines as of this writing.
It was on May 7 yet when the South Korean consulate in Cebu informed the family that the DNA sample taken from Angelita matched with that of the skeletal remains found in the East Asian country.
“Kabay nga dasigon lang ang pag-abot kag madul-ong di. Kag kabay lang madakpan ang naghimo kag matagaan hustisya ang anak ko,” Angelita said.
Angelita needs to execute a Special Power of Attorney and sign a letter of acceptance for the repatriation of the remains, said Mayette, citing an email that Glenn Corpin, an Assistance to Nationals officer and attaché in the Philippine Embassy in Seoul, sent Jeanette on the evening of May 16.
Mayette further said Corpin told them that the remains could be sent to the Philippines by May 21.
Defensor said he will write Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III and Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano to seek help.
According to Jeanette, she learned about the skeletal remains which were eventually proven to be Claveria’s from her brother’s Filipino coworkers in South Korea.
“Tama ka sakit sa amon, especially sa akon, kay ako una gintawagan sang mga kaupdanan niya didto sa South Korea nga may nakita nga human bones, tapos nakita iya gamit sa water purifying tank,” said Jeanette.
Claveria went to South Korea in July 2014 to work as a metal cutter. He was last in touch with his family in December 2015.
His worried family reached out to the Department of Foreign Affairs’ Consular Office – Iloilo on Feb. 20 this year to help them determine Claveria’s whereabouts./PN
