P500K reward for arrest of Cui slay suspects

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

BACOLOD City – The provincial government of Negros Occidental has offered a P500,000 bounty for any information that would lead to the arrest of person/s responsible for the murder of late provincial consultant for hospital operations Mariano Antonio “Marton” Cui III.

This was stated in a document signed by Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson and issued on October 6, 2021.

Cui was gunned down by unidentified perpetrators believed to be armed with a sniper rifle while he was about to ride his car outside the Emerald Arcade in Barangay Palampas, San Carlos City on April 12 this year.

Lacson said that persons who may have information can immediately contact Atty. Renoir Baldovino, head of National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)-Bacolod, who is conducting a parallel investigation on the case.

Earlier, President Rodrigo Duterte has also ordered the NBI to investigate the killing.

For the part of the police, the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (Nocppo) here earlier said they are facing a blank wall, although three vehicles were previously placed under probe after they were sighted in the area on the day that the incident happened.

But police still have yet to establish the motive.