Clark airport execs receive threats

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga, Philippines – A week after Clark International Airport Corp.’s chief engineer was shot dead in Sta. Ignacia town, Tarlac, top executives of the CIAC have allegedly received threats through text messages.

This developed as Chief Inspector Crisanto Paac, Sta. Ignacia police chief, said a task group probing the murder of Ruel Angeles is focusing on the possibility that the murder was job-related.

A ranking CIAC official, who asked not to be named, said a member of the CIAC bids and awards committee (BAC) received a text message that said: “One down, more to go.”

“Four others, including two women, also received similar text messages,” the source said.

Almost all of those who received the messages are members of the BAC, which is handling the bidding for the procurement of a P250-million instrument landing system (ILS).

Angeles was a member of the BAC. He was shot dead by one of two motorcycle-riding men while driving his wife Crusenia and their grandson to a school in Barangay Pada-Pada in Sta. Ignacia.

The killing occurred amid reported issues involving the bidding of the ILS.

Paac said Angeles would be buried today and that he assigned six police officers to protect Angeles’ family.