P.5-M reward offered for arrest of Aussie exec's killers

ANGELES CITY – Police are still clueless on the killing last week of an Australian president of a corporation at the Clark Freeport, even as the victim’s brother has offered a P500,000 reward for the arrest of the killers.

Senior Superintendent Pierre Bucsit, city police chief, told The STAR the reward offer came from Malcolm Brown, younger brother of victim Ivan Brown, 55, who was shot four times by two motorcycle-riding men while he was driving home along a highway in Barangay Anonas here last Sept. 24.

Ivan was the president of the Outback Five Star Inc., a company that manufactures coolers and ice boxes at Clark.

He was survived by his Filipino wife Gloria, who, as vice president of the firm, has reportedly assumed the post of company president.

Bucsit said Malcolm owns some stocks in his brother’s company.

“All we have is circumstantial evidence, but we hope to build up on this,” Bucsit said, without elaborating.

Bucsit said the two men who shot Ivan were apparently hired killers, although he debunked reports that a gun-for-hire syndicate exists in this city.

“Gun-for-hires are all over the country,” he said.

Bucsit said such hired killers get no more than P100,000 for carrying out a murder.     – Ding Cervantes