Fil-Canadian accuses 11 Manila cops of extorting P1M

Days  after a Quezon City policeman came under fire after he tried to extort money from the son of the new Metro Manila police chief, 11 other policemen, this time from the Manila Police District (MPD), have been accused of mulcting P1 million from a Filipino-Canadian.

Accompanied by Zambales policemen, Belinda Rivera Placido, 53, Monday sought the help of Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim as she went to the MPD headquarters to file a complaint against Station 4 Chief Superintendent  Rolando Balasabas, nine other policemen and her boyfriend, Senior Police Officer 3 Sonny Nosidal, a member of the Police Security Protection Group in Camp Crame.

Lim, for his part, ordered an investigation into the matter.

Placido, who was in the country for her father’s birthday, said she was arrested in her house in San Felipe, Zambales province, at 4 a.m. on Sept. 12 by a group of Manila policemen in connection with a frustrated murder case.

According to her, she asked them if they had a warrant of arrest but they told her that they had already coordinated with the San Felipe police as they forced her to go with them to Manila.

Using unmarked vehicles, the group returned to the MPD Station 4 in Sampaloc where Placido was detained at the anti-crime unit by the policemen who took her three cell phones.

Suspect in stabbing of BF’s daughter

At this point, PO3 Mike Pornilos talked to her and accused her of being the mastermind in the stabbing of Nosidal’s daughter, 22-year-old Jane Carmela, Placido said.

She added that Pornilos told her to pay P1 million so that Nosidal would drop the case against her and allow her to go back to Canada. Placido was supposed to return to Canada in a few days.

Left with no choice, she said she asked her nephew in Zambales to bring the money to Manila.

She claimed that when the cash was brought to the police station, Pornilos took  P100,000 and gave it to Nosidal.