Business partners eyed in Tsinoy businessman’s slay

MANILA, Philippines – The Manila Police District (MPD) is looking for the three business partners of a Chinese-Filipino businessman who was killed in an ambush in Manila on Saturday afternoon.

Police Officer 3 Alonzo Layugan told The STAR yesterday that Alem Lu’s partners – identified only as Pat, Ato and Jap – cannot be located and never even visited his wake.

He said a week before he was killed, Lu admonished his partners for “squandering the company’s money.”

Layugan said another Filipino business partner “confirmed that Lu was mad at the three (when) they were not able to explain where the money went.”

Pat left the country three days before the ambush while the other two have yet to surface, he added.

Layugan said the three are not yet considered suspects, although “they have a lot of explaining to do.”

Lu and his wife, Ou Yang Mei Qui, were cruising along the southbound lane of Dimasalang street when a gunman shot at them when they reached the corner of Aragon street at around 3 p.m.

Lu died at the scene while his wife, who was nine months pregnant, was hit in the right shoulder. She was taken to the St. Jude Hospital, where she gave birth three days later.

A bullet hit security guard Alejandro Alindaya, 41, in the back as he was sleeping at the nearby Florida Bus terminal. 

Bystanders told Layugan the assailant had been waiting in the area minutes before the shooting.

The couple was on their way home after spending some time in Bulacan, where they had a printing press business.

After the ambush, the assailant rushed towards a waiting Hi-Ace van that sped away.