Police find no motive in murder of doctor

The Crimes Against Persons Desk of the Cebu City Police Office found no motive for Dutch national Oleg Purfenyuk to kill medical internist Jane Lim Chua.

Department chief Mario Monilar yesterday said that Oleg Purfenyuk's wife Chindy only told him that she does not see any reason why her husband killed Chua inside her clinic last month.

Chindy said that although she knew her husband was suffering from anemia, bronchitis, prostate cancer and chest pains, she never accompanied him every time he visited a physician.

She admitted though that her husband was a very irritable man and clarified that they have never separated as claimed by a certain Cristita Dacalos, who had served as an errand girl of the foreigner.

She said that last January 18, her husband accompanied her to the pier and wanted her to go back to her parents because he no longer had the money to support his stay in the country.

With Chindy's testimony, Monilar said that it seemed that the foreigner may have just been overwhelmed by his problems considering that he was also an overstaying alien in the country because his passport had expired on July 21, 2003.

Monilar also said they could not pinpoint a specific motive why Purfenyuk killed Chua based on the affidavits of Purfenyuk's wife, landlady and errand girl.

With this, Monilar said they have already considered the case solved. He, however, explained that they would still continue to coordinate with the Consular Office of Holland to contact the relatives of Purfenyuk for more information about him because no one has claimed his body at the Cebu Rolling Hills Funeral Parlor in Banilad.

Chua's husband Oscar will be the one to determine who will receive the P50,000 reward which the Chua family promised to give to any body who can identify Purfenyuk. - Flor Z. Perolina