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The four men accused of shooting dead a Japanese national and wounding another in Banilad in 2001 were convicted yesterday of murder and frustrated murder and sentenced to 20 to 40 years imprisonment. 


Regional Trial Court judge Olegario Sarmiento Jr. ruled that Norbert Antiquando, Allan Inot, Alex Oyao and Claudio Bontilao, are all guilty beyond reasonable doubt for the death of Masayuki Kuwabara and the wounding of Yoshiaki Miwa on September 20, 2001.


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Who gets credit stands to receive the P500,000 reward which the city government had dangled for the arrest of the suspects.


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                    [Summary] => CEBU CITY — The supposed vital witness in the ambush of the two Japanese businessmen last Thursday in front of the Gaisano Country Mall turned out to be the mastermind in the killing.


Killed on the spot was 72-year-old Masayuki Kuwabara while his companion Yusiyaki Mewa, 49, is now confined at the intensive care unit of the Perpetual Succour Hospital.


Norberto Antiquando, 37, confessed to investigators of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group that he hated the two, so he had them slain.


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Arrested were businessman Norberto Antiquando, 37; alleged hired gun Alan Inot, 39; Claudio Bontilao, 39, and Alex Oyao.


Director Nestorio Gualberto, chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), said Antiquando masterminded the killing of Masayuki Kuwabara after the Japanese allegedly swindled him in the export of handicrafts.


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Arrested were businessman Norberto Antiquando, 37; alleged hired gun Alan Inot, 39; Claudio Bontilao, 39, and Alex Oyao.


Director Nestorio Gualberto, chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), said Antiquando masterminded the killing of Masayuki Kuwabara after the Japanese allegedly swindled him in the export of handicrafts.


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Court convicts 4 for slay of Japanese

October 11, 2006 - 12:00am

The four men accused of shooting dead a Japanese national and wounding another in Banilad in 2001 were convicted yesterday of murder and frustrated murder and sentenced to 20 to 40 years imprisonment. Regional...

Cebu News

Cebu City police chief, CIDG; regional director in word war

September 27, 2001 - 12:00am

CEBU CITY — The word war between Cebu City police chief Hiram Benatiro and Criminal Investigation and Detection Group regional director Edwin Diocos over who gets credit for the arrest of suspects in the killing...

Nation

‘Witness’ admits plotting slay of Japanese trader

September 23, 2001 - 12:00am

CEBU CITY — The supposed vital witness in the ambush of the two Japanese businessmen last Thursday in front of the Gaisano Country Mall turned out to be the mastermind in the killing. Killed on the spot was...

Nation

4 nabbed in ambush-slay of Japanese businessman

By Jaime Laude | September 22, 2001 - 12:00am

Police arrested yesterday the alleged mastermind and triggerman and two other suspects in Thursday’s killing of a 72-year-old Japanese businessman in Cebu City. Arrested were businessman Norberto Antiquando,...

Nation