MURDER CHARGES FILED IN THE SEPTIC TANK LADY CASE;

WARRANTS OF ARREST EXPECTED TO BE ISSUED AGAINST PSUPT ROMMEL MIRANDA, 2 OTHER POLICE
OFFICERS, AND 2 CIVILIANS

25 May 2012

Four (4) months after she was last seen alive by her family, and three (3) months after her decomposing
body was found dumped inside a septic tank in a compound in San Pedro, Laguna, criminal charges have
been filed today in connection with the slaying of the woman later identified as businesswoman Lea
Angeles-Ng.

Tommy Ng, the victims husband, reported her missing on 23 January 2012, after she failed to return
home and could no longer be contacted ever since she left their house in Quezon City on January 20.
The AntiKidnapping Group (AKG") of the Philippine National Police (PNP) investigated the case and, the
following day (January 24), the victims vehicle was found abandoned in a supermarket parking lot in
Carmona, Cavite. Footage recorded from the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) camera monitoring the
parking lot revealed two (2) male persons parking and leaving the vehicle at 2:20 PM of January 20.

One of the two men were identified by Mrs. Angeles-Ngs brother and two other witnesses as REGINEL
REGIDOR SANTIAGO y CAPULONG, a.k.a. "Tagoy", a former policeman and known to the relatives and
employees of Mrs. Angeles-Ng as a minion" of former National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO)
Spokesperson and then Deputy Chief of the Communication and Electronics (Comel) Service of PNP
Region 7, PSUPT. ROMMEL MIRANDA y SANTOS.

Tommy Ng further reported that, from February 20 to 22, he received calls and text messages from an
unidentified caller/texter demanding ransom in the amount of Ten Million Pesos (P10,000,000.00) in
exchange for his wifes liberty.

Santiago was thereafter arrested by AKG operatives on February 23. Inquest proceedings were initiated
against him, but he expressly waived, with the assistance of his own counsel, the provisions of Article
125 of the Revised Penal Code (Delay in the Delivery of Detained Persons to the Proper Judicial
Authorities) and requested the conduct of a regular preliminary investigation.
Santiago executed extrajudicial confessions, dated 23 and 29 February 2012, both with the assistance of
his own counsel and affirmed before the investigating prosecutors during the course of the preliminary
investigation, confessing and detailing his participation in the killing of Mrs. AngelesNg, pointing to
PSUPT. Miranda as the mastermind, and implicating two other police officers, namely, PO1 JIFFORD
SIGNAP y GONZALES and PO1 OTELIO SANT OS, JR. Y BAGNES, as having acted in complicity in
committing the crime.

Signap and Santos, while both denying prior knowledge about plans to kill Mrs. Angeles-Ng, whom they
claim not to have known and, therefore, against whom they had no motive or ill-will, corroborated
Santiagos account insofar as it implicated PSUPT. Miranda. As stated by the investigating prosecutors in
their Resolution, their statements "are in unison in pointing respondent Miranda as the person who
alighted from the vehicle of Lea in Taguig City and ordered the disposal of Leas body. These interlocking
statements are material and identical with each other... [and] are confirmatory evidence and gave high
probability of respondent Mirandas involvement in the killing."

In resolving the case, the prosecutors based their conclusions on evidence that includes the extrajudicial
confessions of Santiago, the statements of Signap and Santos, the affidavit of Tommy Ng (stating, among
others, that three days prior to his wifes disappearance she told him that she had an argument with
respondent Miranda and that Pag may nangyari masama sa akin ay si Rommel ang gagawa noon sa
akin."), the affidavits of Cecilia Sanchez, the personal assistant and relative of the victim (stating, among
others, that sometime in 2011, she was instructed by the victim to collect from Miranda the amount of
Thirteen Million Pesos [P13,000,000.00], which the latter refused and insisted that he had no obligation
to Mrs. Angeles-Ng), the affidavit of Miranda himself (among others, admitting that he had a scheduled
meeting the victim, and admitting his business transactions with her), various CCTV recordings, and the
results of the clarificatory hearings and ocular inspection they conducted.

After considering the foregoing, they found sufficient evidence to charge Miranda, Santiago, Signap and
Santos with the crime of MURDER, qualified by taking advantage of superior strength. They also found
probable cause to include ELMER PAISTE y DONATO, the caretaker/ guard of the compound where the
victims body was found, in the charges, finding that "it is very impossible that [he] could not notice the
presence of Leas lifeless body being alighted from the vehicle and the way it was dumped in the septic
tank," which the ocular inspection revealed to be merely "more or less 10 meters away" from the guar