PIIB chief, Supt. Juanito Enguerra, disclosed this after checking the records of the four at the central office of the Presidential Anti-Crime Emergency Response in Metro Manila, and Provincial director Sr/Supt. Vicente Loot said the group has no base in Cebu.
Enguerra however said the four suspects have no target victim and they came to Cebu for another purpose, which he refused to divulge to reporters.
Enguerra's men got into the rented house of the four suspects and seized some documents, signed by a former president and purportedly from Camp Aguinaldo.
The documents were: a General Order, signed by former president Corazon Aquino on September 25, 1991; and a Special Order dated December 23, 2005 and signed by Col. Salvador Escobar, group commander of the Military Intelligence Group-15.
The documents identified the three as S/Sgt. Jessie Pepino, Sgt. Crisologo Puzon and confidential agent Ronald Pepino. The fourth, known as Richard Orayan, was not named in the documents.
But Enguerra said the documents were questionable because only the Adjutant of Camp Aguinaldo signed the General Order, not the President. The S.O. was also defective because the serial numbers of Pepino and Puzon were in succession.
Enguerra clarified that the four are no longer in Cebu because they posted P10,000 bail each for usurpation of authority charges, although authorities are still monitoring the movements of these people.
Meanwhile, Provincial Police director S/Supt. Vicente Loot assured the business community that everything is under control and that they are safe from any assault of any group.
Loot said businessmen should cooperate also with the police, which cannot identify who is the possible target of the kidnap-for-ransom group. Any abnormal situation in their area or suspicious people around them should be reported immediately to the police, he said. -Gregg M. Rubio and Norvie S. Misa