Romeo Salvador, one of the negotiators of the bloody Manila hostage taking last August 23 said in a probe earlier that he heard the hostage taker Rolando Mendoza shouting at an Ombudsman official for demanding a P150,000 bribe in relation to his pending case.
“P– mo, humihingi ka pa ng P150,000 para sa kaso ko. Kung may mamatay rito, kasalanan mo lahat ito,” an angry Mendoza allegedly told Deputy Ombudsman Emilio Gonzalez III over the phone. Gonzalez is deputy Ombudsman for Military and other Law Enforcement Offices.
Rolando Mendoza was dismissed from the police force last 2009 for an alleged extortion of a traffic violator in 2006.
Manila Vice Mayor Isko Moreno confirmed that Mendoza had a conversation with Ombudsman Gonzales during the hostage crisis but he said that he could not hear Mendoza on the other end of the line, adding that all he heard was Gonzalez saying “Okay” and nodding.
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