Had they not stepped in, the 23-year-old son of GMA 7 television news anchorman Arnold Clavio would have been left not only with a damaged car, no phone and possibly with no money in his wallet after his attackers were done with him, police said.
Officials of the Eastern Police District said on Thursday that they had arrested Arnauld Ymanuel Veluz Clavio’s suspected attackers, Urmas Saask, 36, alias Veikoo Soori, an Estonian national, and his companion Lilia Docot, 29, alias Aumi Cha, in an entrapment operation in Taguig City Wednesday night.
Chief Supt. Miguel T. Laurel, EPD district director, said they had acted on the robbery/extortion complaint of the younger Clavio, 23, co-owner of 25th Media Productions, whose car was hit by the suspects’ Mercedez Benz along Guadix Street in Mandaluyong City at 2 p.m. on Tuesday.
Clavio complained that Saask took his iPhone 5 and demanded P28,000 from him so he could get it back.
The amount would also be payment in exchange for not filing damage to property charges against the victim, said Senior Supt. Danilo Maligalig, deputy district director for operations.
“Apparently, Saask hit Clavio’s car and yet he had the nerve to bully the victim,” Maligalig said.
Saask, who was allegedly drunk at the time of the incident, even punched him before taking his phone, Clavio claimed.
The police official said a check with the Bureau of Immigration (BI) showed that Saask was an overstaying alien in the country.
He said authorities found that Saask entered the country in September 2009 and had not renewed his student visa.
“As far as the BI is concerned, he is an overstaying alien,” Maligalig said.
The police said they were studying what other charges could be filed against the two suspects.
Saask and Docot are now detained at the EPD’s District Intelligence Division detention facility.