Another P1-million cash reward has been offered to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of the persons behind the murder this time of Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Regional Director Jonas Amora, the Department of Finance (DOF) said today.
The same individual from the private sector who earlier offered a separate P1 million reward for information leading to the arrest of the killers of Customs Deputy Commissioner Arturo Lachica last Nov. 17, put up the cash bounty for leads on Amora’s murder on Monday morning.
The DOF, in strongly condemning the killings of Lachica and Amora, said it is “in contact with the highest levels of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to arrest the perpetrators of both murders.”
Those who have any information relevant to the murders of Lachica and/or Amora can contact either DOF head executive assistant Marc Gregory Crisostomo or technical assistant Alddon Christner Ang.
Crisostomo and Ang can be contacted at telephone nos. 5239215 and 5239219.
“The private individual who earlier offered the P1 million for information on Lachica’s murder has now upped the reward. It is now P1 million each for information leading to the arrests of the persons responsible for the murders of Deputy Commissioner Lachica and Regional Director Amora,” the DOF said.
The DOF did not identify the source of the cash reward and said the identity of the would-be informants would also remain strictly confidential.
According to the BIR, Amora, who was the bureau’s regional director of Revenue Region 8-Makati City, was killed early Monday morning in Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City by unknown assailants onboard a motorcyle.
The motive for the killing is still unknown, the BIR said.
Amora, a certified public accountant, rose from the ranks in the bureau, starting his stint in the government service as a revenue examiner, and later as regional director in Quezon City, where he had consistently delivered “topnotch performance.”
The BIR described Amora as a “dedicated public servant” who has no known enemies either in or out of the Bureau.
Meanwhile, according to the Manila Police District spot report that Faeldon had furnished the DOF, Lachica was on his way home to Caloocan City on Thursday night onboard his Toyota Altis with two BOC contractual employees—his driver Romulo Dumaua and bodyguard Ramon Hernandez—when attacked by the suspect wearing a face mask.
Lachica’s assailant suddenly appeared from behind along España Avenue near the corner of Kundiman St. in Sampaloc, Manila and shot him several times with a handgun, said the same police repprt.
Lachica was rushed to the nearby United Doctors Medical Center, where he was subsequently declared dead-on-arrival.
He was a certified public accountant who was appointed deputy commissioner for the BOC Internal Administration Group (IAG) on 2014.
He was designated as deputy commissioner for the Revenue Collection and Monitoring Group in July 2015 and, since his posting there, had been active in filing cases against alleged smugglers and those involved in illegal and misdeclared imports.
Faeldon appointed Lachica back as IAG deputy commissioner last July.
