DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 11 Mar) – Filipino authorities filed a string of charges against a senior leader of the communist rebel group, New People’s Army, and six others in connection with a raid at a banana plantation last year.
Local prosecutors charged Leoncio “Leonardo” Pitao, also known as Ka Parago Sandoval, and six of his followers, for allegedly torching and destroying a seven-hectare banana plantation in Paquibato District in Davao City in September.
The Philippine Fresh Fruits Corporation owned the plantation. Chief city prosecutor Raul Bendigo said the damage to the plantation reached to about P3.5 million.
Bendigo said they filed two charges of malicious mischief on top of an arson case based on the investigation of prosecutor Jofre Saniel.
The firm’s manager, Teodolfo Vergara, said Parago led the attack.
All seven are at-large, authorities said. There were no immediate statement from either Parago or the NPA about the laetst charges. Parago is also facing a string of murder charges filed by the military and police for the killings of soldiers and policemen and civilians suspected as government spy. (Romy Bwaga)
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