Police to investigate business pals

As they are waiting for the results of the cyber forensic examination of the mobile phones of Yi Sung Jung, the Korean businessman gunned down last week  in a busy Mandaue City Street, investigators plan to question his  business partners.

“We’re exploring all angles to find out what the motive of the shooting incident was and get the killers,” said Senior Supt. Petronelli Baldebrin, Mandaue City Police Office Chief yesterday.

Baldebrin, however, refused to give the names of the Korean partners that he wanted investigated.

Baldebrin said the mobile phones were sent to the Anti-CyberCrime Group for examination.

Senior Insp. Michael Virtudazo, ACG chief, said a few hours before Yi was ambushed, he was heard arguing with somebody over the phone.

Yi was from Su Won City in South Korea and was reportedly in the car dealing business here in Cebu.

Virtudazo said the contents of the cellular phone of the victim  would be very important in the case.

Yi suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the body while his driver Sonny Ubal, 42, resident of Cebu City, was wounded in the right hand when two men on a Honda XRM motorcycle appeared and fired at their Cadillac SUV.

Police recovered five empty shells and two deformed slugs for a .45 caliber pistol from the crime scene./Correspondents Chito O Aragon and Jucell Marie P. Cuyos