(Eagle News) – The Philippine National Police has launched a manhunt for Peter Joemel Advincula, alias Bikoy, who has pending cases for estafa and large scale illegal recruitment before local courts.
“The manhunt operation is underway to find him and to serve the pending warrants of arrest against Advincula, who surfaced before the Integrated Bar of the Philippines as ‘Bikoy’,” said PNP chief Gen. Oscar Albayalde, in a statement, on Friday.
The PNP chief revealed that Advincula has standing warrants of arrest issued by Judge Leody M. Opolinto of the Municipal Trial Court of La Trinidad, Benguet on Sept 26, 2007 for an estafa case, and by the Baguio City Regional Trial Court on August 10, 2007 for large scale illegal recruitment.
PNP spokesperson, Col. Bernard Banac said the CIDG has already secured copies of both warrants.
-Reputation for selling “false info”-
Apparently, Advincula, has a reputation for selling information – even “false information” — to law enforcement agencies, Albayalde said.
“There’s one here who gave money to him as part of intelligence [gathering]… [The intelligence] bought from him had printouts [detailing] then the same things he’s releasing now,” he said on Wednesday in a press briefing in Camp Crame, Quezon City.
“It’s not just one agency we know of. I can’t say which [law enforcement] agencies, but he was able to fool them. He even knows our senior officers here who [are waging] an intensified campaign against illegal drugs,” Albayalde said.
The PNP chief said that Advincula had asked for large amounts of money for information he sold that would later turn out to be false. He would ask for P50,000 to P70,000, he said.
Albayalde said that those who “bought” his offered intelligence information would later realize that his information was false.
He said that Advincula had also been using several aliases.
“It appears that Advincula has been using different names to hide his real identity such as R. B. Santos, John Paul Rafael Benedict Santos, Arcangel de Leon or Archie Santos, Lory Camba, and Jaime Gaupo Jr.,” he said.
“In March 2007, the accused committed illegal recruitment and asked for training fee amounting to PHP300 in exchange of employment at Colegio Del La Pontifical Academia in Baguio City,” the PNP chief said.
