CIDG APPEALS DISMISSAL OF RAPS VS EX-POLICE MAJOR IN CAMILON CASE

CAMP BRIG. GEN. VICENTE LIM, Calamba City, Laguna — The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) has appealed the dismissal of the charges filed against a former police major and his driver linked to the disappearance of beauty pageant candidate Catherine Camilon.

The CIDG on Thursday filed a motion for reconsideration on the decision of the Calabarzon Prosecutor’s Office.

The investigator-on-case from the CIDG Regional Field Unit 4-A was accompanied by Rosario Camilon and her daughter Ching-Ching, mother and sister, respectively, of the victim, in filing the motion for reconsideration.

CIDG-Calabarzon chief Col. Jack Malinao assured the family of Camilon that the Philippine National Police, particularly the CIDG, “will never leave them in their fight for justice.”

”We will exhaust all legal remedies to indict all who caused the disappearance of the beauty queen,” Malinao said.

In a resolution issued on April 23, the Calabarzon Prosecutor’s Office dismissed the kidnapping and serious illegal detention cases filed against former police major Allan de Castro and his driver Jeffrey Magpantay for lack of evidence.

It said there was no evidence to prove that De Castro and Magpantay were associates and that they conspired to commit the crime.

Magpantay has been released from the Balayan police lockup facility.

Camilon, a candidate in the 2023 Miss Grand Philippines, was supposed to meet De Castro on October 12 last year when she went missing.

According to reports, De Castro and Camilon had a relationship.