Court issues HDO vs. men tagged in Dominic Sytin murder

An Olongapo court has ordered the Bureau of Immigration to prevent the brother and a former employee of murdered businessman Dominic Sytin from leaving the country.

The Olongapo Regional Trial Court Branch 72 has issued a hold departure order against Alan Dennis Sytin and Oliver Fuentes alias Ryan Rementilla, two of the three men accused of conspiring to kill Dominic, the CEO of United Auctioneers, Inc., in Subic last year.

The same court earlier ordered Dennis and Fuentes arrested. The third accused, alleged gunman Edgardo Luib, was arrested last March.

Dominic was murdered in the evening of Nov. 28, 2018 in front of a hotel in Subic. His bodyguard, Efren Espartero, survived with injuries.

The police had tagged the businessman's estranged brother, Dennis, as the mastermind of the crime, an allegation he denied during preliminary investigation at the Department of Justice.

State prosecutors indicted the three men for murder and frustrated murder last July 3.

Dennis said he will appeal the indictment before the office of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, calling the charges "false and baseless" as he maintained his claim of innocence. —KG, GMA News