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Gang leader tagged in around 100 killings in Bicol dies in Parañaque operation

Published Jan 25, 2024 08:53 am

After playing hide-and-seek with authorities for long, police finally chanced upon the most wanted person in Bicol during a special operation in Parañaque City on Wednesday night, Jan. 24.

Police gen. Benjamin Acorda, Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said the suspect, Gilbert Saysay Concepcion, used to be a hitman for the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP-NPA) who was recruited by the Philippine Army in 1999.

“He was involved in the series of killings, including barangay officials in Libon, Albay and other areas. His group, together with his brother, were involved in a series of liquidations, robberies, extortion, abduction, rape, gunrunning and gun-for-hire activities and he was also being employed as a partisan armed group by local politicians,” said Acorda.

Aside from Concepcion, also killed was his relative who allegedly provided hideouts for him in Metro Manila.

“The neutralization of these two persons will really be of great help in keeping the peace and tranquility in the area because this group were involved in terrorizing the citizenry in that locality for so long,” he added.

100 killed  

Acorda said Concepcion was known for his brutality in carrying out executions.

For instance, he said Concepcion was implicated in killing and chopping the body parts of his two victims in Bicol in several pieces. 

He added that Concepcion was also tagged in the killing of two brothers in Libon town in 2006 over a land dispute, and also executed the mother of the two brothers in Polangui when she served as the complainant on the case filed against him. 

Police Maj. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez, Jr., director of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), said Concepcion was also implicated in the killing of an engineer 12 years ago in Libon town.

That engineer, according to Nartatez, was supposed to appear in a Senate inquiry in 2012. 

“We are profiling what happened to that case among the different cases that he committed or he was involved, including rumored to be involved,” said Nartatez.

“He was rumored to have killed, whether documented or undocumented killings, 100, more than 100. So that is how notorious this man was,” he added.

The hunt 

Police intelligence operatives have been working to catch Concepcion over the years but would always get away due to strong support system and his background and training when he was still a member of the CPP-NPA and later the military.  

Police Lt. Gen. Roderick Armamento, director of the Area Police Command-Southern Luzon, said that when Concepcion felt that he was no longer safe in Bicol, he started to seek refuge in Rizal and Cavite. 

“When our police intelligence operatives came up with an information that he would be in Manila for a contact meeting, they pursued that information which resulted in the successful operation,” said Armamento.

 Armamento said the killing of Concepcion is good news for businessmen in Bicol as he was tagged in several extortion activities in the region.

 

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