AFTER several months of agony from potential shame and reputational damage and thru the vigilance of his lawyer to prevent a miscarriage of justice, the Taiwanese business locator at the Subic Free Port targeted for blackmail by a syndicate can now put his mind to rest with the dismissal of the rape and illegal detention charges under preliminary investigation at the Cabanatuan Prosecutor’s Office in Nueva Ecija.
Atty. Lovensky Fernandez, counsel for the businessman, said that after due diligence including personal interview with the mother and daughter who were used by the syndicate to frame his client, Cabanatuan City Prosecutor Julius Caesar Mustard issued a resolution last September 1, 2025, dismissing the criminal information.
Last August 14, Lacsina Ann Sinlao, 39, and her 17-years old daughter ‘Jenny,’ both members of the Aeta tribe residing in Morong, Bataan, filed an affidavit of denial before Mustard.
Mother and daughter stated they were not the complainants against the businessman last February 13 at the Olongapo City Prosecutor’s Office.
The bogus complaint alleged that Jenny was sexually abused and illegally detained for three days by the businessman when she was just 14 years old.
In March, Lacsina, accompanied by members of her family, Fernandez, and her counsel, Atty. Baltazar Beltran, went to the Olongapo OCP to deny she and her daughter were the complainants against the businessman.
Her statement, however, was brushed aside by Deputy Prosecutor Ria Niña Leonor Sususco that resulted to the continuation of the preliminary investigation.
Fearing the potential miscarriage of justice due to the Olongapo OCP’s perceived bias, Beltran and Fernandez asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the transfer of venue of the preliminary investigation that was granted last May. The case subsequently ended up at the office of Mustard.
Sususco and Associate Prosecutor Lilia Elizabeth Hinanay-Escusa, who purportedly examined Sinlao and Jenny in February, are now facing criminal charges for entertaining the fake complaint, along with 9 other individuals.
Fight against ‘corrupt’ prosecutors to continue
Beltran stressed the dismissal of the charges against the businessman would not put a closure to the entire incident.
He referred to the criminal complaint the Sinlaos filed against Sususco, Escusa and the other members of the so-called ‘Subic Syndicate’ before the Olongapo OCP last August 29.
Olongapo City Prosecutor Charlie Yap immediately inhibited his office from investigating the complaint on the same day for clear conflict of interest as it involved two of his subordinates.
The complaint was filed at the behest of the Sinlao family who is also seeking justice for the exploitation that Jenny suffered in the hands of the syndicate members.
Their quest for justice is also being supported by the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) headed by its chairman, Atty. Manuel Obedoza, who was also with the family last August 14 at the Cabanatuan Prosecutor’s Office.
Monalie Dizon, secretary general of the Coalition Against Corruption (CAC) said there is also the need to clamp down on the activities of some prosecutors of the DOJ who are in cahoots with unscrupulous individuals to frame innocent people for money.
Last September 2, Dizon submitted a letter of Beltran to Supreme Court Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo precisely calling on the highest court to start cracking the whip on abusive prosecutors, citing the incident at the Olongapo OCP (Pinoy Exposé, September 8, 2025).
Fernandez added the Subic Syndicate is looking to extort P50 million from his client thru the bogus complaint they concocted against him last February.
Fernandez added it would not be the first time that locators at the Subic Free Port have been blackmailed in the millions of pesos thru the filing of a fake rape complaint.