ANGELES CITY –A businesswoman based in Mabalacat town filed a sworn statement before the City Prosecutor’s office here against Clark International Airport Corp. (CIAC) vice president for operations Reynaldo Catacutan in connection with his alleged attempts to harass her in her house on January 13.
In her sworn statement in Tagalog filed before City Prosecutor Oliver Garcia on January 19, Josie Gomez of Barangay Atlu Bola said that Catacutan, accompanied by armed bodyguards, had tried to force her to sign an affidavit-statement implicating CIAC President and CEO Victor Jose Luciano in the reported cable wire theft at the Clark International Airport (CIA) last year.
Gomez said she was repeatedly asked by Catacutan to sign the statement-affidavit against Luciano but she refused, claiming that the contents of the document were false. She said Catacutan shouted at her when she denied his demands.
Gomez said Catacutan’s bodyguards threw away chairs at her terrace before they left disgruntled over her refusal to sign the statement.
She added that Catacutan warned her that he would do everything to make her sign the documents against Luciano.
In a phone interview on Friday, Catacutan said the allegations against him“are figment of the imaginations of Gomez and Luciano.”
He said he was in a CIAC board meeting in Clark on January 13, a Friday, contrary to Gomez’s allegations.
After the CIAC meeting at about 4 p.m., Catacutan said he proceeded to Tarlac State University (TSU) in Barangay Sampu, Tarlac City to attend the meeting of the university’s alumni association in preparation for his installation as board regent last January 17.
Catacutan said he stayed at the TSU until 6 p.m. that day.
The former Capas mayor said he visited Atlu Bola on January 4 with intelligence units of the regional Philippine National Police (PNP) to look for the four alleged suspects in the cable wire theft, two of whom are relatives of Gomez. He identified Gomez’s relatives as certain “Paduas.”
“I have to ask help from the intelligence units because I don’t know the where abouts of the four suspects,” he said.
Catacutan said they failed to locate the four suspects and was instead informed by barangay officials that Gomez was in their house.
He said he and Gomez met at the barangay hall after she was called by the barangay officials.
Catacutan said he and Gomez talked “casually and there was no shouting whatsoever.”
Catacutan said he had asked Gomez to turn state witness against Luciano.
