By NITZ ARANCON, Correspondent
POLICE arrested a Bangladeshi long wanted in his country for beheading his wife, son, and brother-in-law during an operation in Barangay Lapasan this city, on Tuesday.
Misamis Oriental police director Senior Supt. Manuel Alvarez identified the suspect as Asif Iqbal Ahmed, 31, of Barisal City in Bangladesh.
Galagala was linked to the 1999 killing of his wife Zaman Mary and their young son, and brother-in-law Tareq Sophia. He beheaded the three victims, said Insp. Rustico Galagala, chief of the Misamis Oriental Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs and Special Operation Task Force.
Galagala said they learned from the Philippine Center on Transnational Crime (PCTC)-Interpol that Ahmed used an ax to behead the three victims.
Police pounced on Ahmed after they were sent a copy of an arrest warrant by the secretariat of the PCTC-Interpol’s national central bureau in Manila.
Galagala said Ahmed escaped from Bangladesh to Rochester City in Minnesota right after the brutal killings on Nov. 26, 1999.
He said Ahmed hid in the US even after he was placed in the list of fugitives by the Interpol in 2001.
Last year, Ahmed came to the Philippines where he subsequently “married” Marilyn Neri Sacay of Purok 1, Barangay Lanao in Alubijid town, Misamis Oriental.
Galagala said authorities learned about Ahmed’s history after Sacay filed a complaint against the Bangladeshi for violence against women.
Police said Ahmed is also facing a case for human trafficking here.
The Bangladeshi was presented to Misamis Oriental Gov. Yevgeny Vincente Emano at the capitol yesterday before he was brought to the provincial jail for detention.
Police said they were also waiting for the Bureau of Immigration to act on the Bangladeshi’s case.
Ahmed, for his part, strongly denied that he killed anyone in Bangladesh. He said he was willing to be deported so he could clear his name in Bangladesh.
Ahmed, who said he came to this country eight months ago supposedly to do business, also denied that he was ever in the US.
Emano lauded the provincial police for catching the Bangladeshi and promised to give those responsible for the arrest a reward.
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