BACOLOD City – The murder of businessman Roberto Tan is possibly connected to the ambush survived by his brother, former city councilor Ricardo “Cano” Tan a year ago.
Colonel Henry Biñas, the city’s top cop, said Monday that investigators are considering this angle, but but he would not automatically conclude that this was the reason behind the killing.
“There is a possibility but we are not directly relating the killing to that, we’re looking at all angles, including business,” Biñas said.
Roberto “Kaishek” Tan, 70, was gunned down by two motorcycle-riding men along C. L. Montelibano Drive in Greensville I Subdivision, Baragay Estefania around 9:45 a.m. on Sunday.
Tan was driving a Nissan Sentra when he was shot five times. He died immediately. The still unidentified gunman fled with his driver-companion.
Biñas said investigators of Police Station 4 have not received reports of threats on the life of the businessman, but investigators believe the incident was pre-meditated.
“It was not just a timing. We saw that it was carefully planned,” he added.
Roberto was gunned down exactly a year after his brother Ricardo, a former number one councilor of this city, and wife Anita, were ambushed by at least three assailants.
In the afternoon of Dec. 14, 2018, the couple was on their way home from the family-owned Campuestohan Highland Resort when unidentified men fired at their Nissan Patrol vehicle.
Both Tan and his wife survived the attack and only sustained abrasions.
After the ambush, Tan was unable to attend the remaining City Council sessions until his term expired on June 30 this year.
Weeks after the ambush, the councilor again made headlines when President Rodrigo Duterte linked him to the illegal drug trade. (With a report from PNA/PN)
