ANGELES CITY – City police director Senior Supt. Pierre Bucsit said yesterday that this city is “already hurting” because of an active website exposing purported anomalies and naming allegedly involved officials mostly in this city.
Bucsit said local officials have remained helpless amid lack of means to have the website scrapped. He said there are yet no solid proofs on suspicions that the website is authored by a Filipino-American woman living in this city.
The website centralluzoncorruption.com is reportedly accessed by thousands each week from all over the world since it came out earlier this year. It warns potential foreign tourists and those already here against pedophilia frame-ups for extortion with local officials and cops allegedly behind them, among other alleged anomalies.
“Angeles is already hurting because of the website,” Bucsit said in a meeting with local media hosted here by Mayor Francis Nepomuceno. He did not say how, but there are reports of lesser tourist arrivals since the website came out.
The website, however, seem to have created some security for some expatriates and foreign tourists here. It has threatened to come out with more exposes against some members of the local police unless they cease from their alleged extortion operations against foreigners in this city.
An American expatriate who requested anonymity claimed to Punto! that revelations in the website were “largely credible”. He had been a businessman in this city for many years.
While the website zeroes in largely on alleged anomalies in this city, it also highlights cases in other parts of the country, such as Baguio City and Nueva Ecija.
It has an article titled “Angeles City, set-up capital of the P.I.”, referring to alleged cases of framing up foreigners and extorting from them. It cited the case of Australian national Dr. Steven Soul who has fled to his country after cops allegedly set him up in a purported frustrated rape attempt on a minor.
Soul met with Punto! and other local journalist before he flew to Australia amid his insistence he was merely framed up. The Australian embassy recently sought help of the Department of Justice in his behalf when a local woman sought to be placed under the government’s witness protection program after she admitted in an affidavit that she had participation in framing up Soul.
One cop who was tagged by the website as allegedly one of the perpetrators of extortion operations against foreigners here recently filed libel charges against an American woman whom he suspected to be behind the website. The woman is known to have been living in this city for some years.
The policeman, who asked not to be named, denied the allegations in the website.
He also said he had evidence to prove that the American woman was behind the website. He claimed that his photo on the website was taken by the same woman during his meeting with some officials of the Angeles prosecutor’s office.
He also said that a British expert he knew was able to trace the source of the website in Hong Kong, as he noted reports that the American woman he suspected had been meeting here with some Chinese tourists who, he added, might have helped her establish the website.
Bucsit said local officials have remained helpless amid lack of means to have the website scrapped. He said there are yet no solid proofs on suspicions that the website is authored by a Filipino-American woman living in this city.
The website centralluzoncorruption.com is reportedly accessed by thousands each week from all over the world since it came out earlier this year. It warns potential foreign tourists and those already here against pedophilia frame-ups for extortion with local officials and cops allegedly behind them, among other alleged anomalies.
“Angeles is already hurting because of the website,” Bucsit said in a meeting with local media hosted here by Mayor Francis Nepomuceno. He did not say how, but there are reports of lesser tourist arrivals since the website came out.
The website, however, seem to have created some security for some expatriates and foreign tourists here. It has threatened to come out with more exposes against some members of the local police unless they cease from their alleged extortion operations against foreigners in this city.
An American expatriate who requested anonymity claimed to Punto! that revelations in the website were “largely credible”. He had been a businessman in this city for many years.
While the website zeroes in largely on alleged anomalies in this city, it also highlights cases in other parts of the country, such as Baguio City and Nueva Ecija.
It has an article titled “Angeles City, set-up capital of the P.I.”, referring to alleged cases of framing up foreigners and extorting from them. It cited the case of Australian national Dr. Steven Soul who has fled to his country after cops allegedly set him up in a purported frustrated rape attempt on a minor.
Soul met with Punto! and other local journalist before he flew to Australia amid his insistence he was merely framed up. The Australian embassy recently sought help of the Department of Justice in his behalf when a local woman sought to be placed under the government’s witness protection program after she admitted in an affidavit that she had participation in framing up Soul.
One cop who was tagged by the website as allegedly one of the perpetrators of extortion operations against foreigners here recently filed libel charges against an American woman whom he suspected to be behind the website. The woman is known to have been living in this city for some years.
The policeman, who asked not to be named, denied the allegations in the website.
He also said he had evidence to prove that the American woman was behind the website. He claimed that his photo on the website was taken by the same woman during his meeting with some officials of the Angeles prosecutor’s office.
He also said that a British expert he knew was able to trace the source of the website in Hong Kong, as he noted reports that the American woman he suspected had been meeting here with some Chinese tourists who, he added, might have helped her establish the website.
