ANGELES CITY — The panel of prosecutors handling the murder of Subic freeport businessman Dominic Sytin, whose brother was tagged as mastermind in his fatal shooting last year, asked last Tuesday the court here to direct the Bureau of Immigration to issue a “precautionary hold departure order (PHDO)” against the suspects in the case.
In a petition, the prosecutors asked the Regional Trial Court Branch 57 here to “direct the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (sic) to hold and prevent the departure of respondents Mr. Alan Dennis L. Sytin and Mr. Oliver D. Fuentes a.k.a Ryan Rementilla at any Philippine Airport or ports and to include their names in the Hold Departure List of the said office.”
The two are facing charges of murder and frustrated murder in the court here.
Dennis Sytin is a brother of the slain businessman Dominic Sytin who was fatally shot on Nov. 28 last year in front of the Light House Hotel in the Subic Freeport Zone. His bodyguard Efren Espartero Jr was wounded.
The Sytin brothers reportedly had a “corporate dispute” over shares in their company, United Auctioneers Inc., police earlier said. On 15 November, Dominic removed Dennis from the company and prevented him from entering the company building. He also fired Fuentes for alleged anomalies.
Lawmen arrested in Batangas last March the suspected hired gunman Edgardo Luib, but on the bases of existing arrest warrants over murder cases he is facing, including the killing of journalist Mae Magsino and municipal councilor Michael Caringal of Bauan, Batangas. He implicated Dennis in the murder of Dominic, with Fuentes as the contact person between them.
The PHDO petition was filed by the panel of prosecutors led by Senior Assistant State Prosecutor Juan Pedro Navera, based on the motion of complainant, Dominic’s wife Ann Marietta Sytin.
The complaint against Dennis and Fuentes has remained a “subject of preliminary investigation” by the prosecutors.
In the referral letter to the Department of Justice, Olongapo City Police Station officer-in-charge Capt. Ailyn Rosario said Luib issued an extra-judicial confession which detailed his participation in the killing of Dominic and the wounding of the latter’s bodyguard.
