OVER a million peso reward was offered by Pampanga politicians and family of missing beauty pageant candidate Geneva Lopez and her Israeli boyfriend Yitshak Cohen.
The couple has been missing for over two weeks.
Pampanga Gov. Dennis Pineda and Vice Gov. Lilia Pineda have offered a P1 million reward on top of the P250,000 put by Cohen’s family and the P150,000 by the local government of Sto. Tomas town, where Lopez’s family lives.
The Special Investigation Task Group is looking into all the angles that could help in the investigation.
Police said it was premature to consider Geneva’s boyfriend as a person of interest, as well as the former police officer in Angeles City who is reportedly the middleman in their land purchase.
“On the part of the middle man, siya naman po ay kusang pumunta po sa police station nagbigay po siya ng pahayag pero investigation would somehow consider this as additional information. Kailangan nating i-validate, i-confirm at i-vet yung mga sinasabi niya pong pahayag at i-cocompare natin yan sa mga na-recover at kino-collate pa po nating ebidensya,” said PNP spokesperson Police Colonel Jean Fajardo.
The middleman initially said that he accompanied the couple to the land they were interested in but they eventually went separate ways.
“Siya ay nakipag-usap nga sa magkasintahan na ito at naghiwalay na sila pagkatapos ng site visit nila sa lupang bibilhin at nabalitaan na lang nila na nakita ‘yung abandoned na vehicle,” said Police Major General Leol Francisco, PNP-CIDG Chief.
