By NITZ ARANCON Correspondent FORMER councilor Alvin Calingin yesterday lashed out at the Coast Guard here, accusing it of abusing its powers when it held five bankers and guards for four days without a clear case against them. Calingin, a lawyer of the United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) in this city, said this after Judge Gil Bollozos of the 21st branch of the Regional Trial Court here granted the petition for a writ of habeas corpus in favor of UCPB-Velez Street branch manager Ma. Cecilia Lim, operations officer Rolando Limbo Jr., tellers Rhodelle Nagac and Rolley Cervantes Estibor, and guards Leonilo Enterina and Reynaldo Puyos. Bollozos ordered Coast Guard-Cagayan de Oro station commander Hositillo Arturo Cornelio to release Limbo, Nagac, Estibor, Enterina and Puyos. Lim, the UCPB branch manager, was not detained by the Coast Guard. The bankers and guards were taken and held by the Coast Guard following the discovery of  P32.890  million and US$88,490 in four boxes that were supposed to be brought to a Cebu-bound vessel at the Macabalan port on Sunday night. Now for the big question: Where is the money now? Calingin said the Coast Guard has yet to return the bank’s money as of 3:30 pm yesterday. “Maghulat lang kami  kon kanus-a to nila i-uli sa bangko,” he said. Calingin said the bankers and guards and their families became very emotional when they were freed by the Coast Guard on Thursday. Bank teller Nagac and guards Puyos and Enteria were held by the Coast Guard and the port police following the discovery of the cash in boxes at around 6:09 pm on Sunday. Two other bankers who came to explain why Nagac and the guards were bringing the bank’s money with them were subsequently held. “Nahimong sentimental ang ilang pag-release gikan sa illegal custody sa Coast Guard. Naggakos silang tanan uban sa ilang sakop sa pamilya ug  nanghilak,” Calingin said. Calingin said the bankers and guards violated no law. “Nothing unusual man ang gihimo sa bangko pag-transport sa ilang kuwarta... tanan man bangko naghimo niini nga practice tungod kay ang banking hours karon, 24 hours na man tungod sa ATM transactions.” Calingin said the cash had to be brought to Cebu because UCPB needed more money there for ATM transactions. The court order came the same day a panel composed of prosecutors Ramoncito Bienvenido Ocampo Jr., Alfonso Vicente Jr. and Louie Borja dismissed the Coast Guard’s complaint for rebellion, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and perjury against the bankers and the guards. In the seven-page resolution, the prosecutors also ordered the Coast Guard to release the bankers and the guards, and the armored van owned by Ultra Security Agency that was used in bringing the boxes of money to the Macabalan pier. The prosecutors said the complaint was “insufficient.” “The allegation of the complainant for the crime of rebellion or acts in furtherance thereof, being insufficient, has no leg to stand on to warrant the finding of probable cause against the respondents,” reads part of the resolution. In a report yesterday, the Manila Bulletin website quoted the prosecution panel as stating: “As there may be lapses on the part of respondents in the handling and transporting of said cash, the same would not suffice to persuade the mind of the prosecutors that the acts committed would suggest that herein respondents could have been probable guilty of the crime of rebellion or acts in furtherance thereof.”