Malacañang on Tuesday apologized to the family of the slain South Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo and the Korean government over Jee’s “untimely death while in police custody.”
“We wish to take this occasion to express the condolences and sympathies of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and the Filipino people to Choi Kyung-jin, the widow of Mr. Jee Ick-Joo, the South Korean national who met untimely death while in police custody,” Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said in a press briefing.
It can be recalled that Jee was allegedly killed in his home last October by the Philippine National Police and he was cremated in a different funeral parlor.
Malacañang also apologized to the South Korean government for the “irreparable loss,” assuring that they would exact justice for Jee’s death.
“We commit the full force of the law to ensure that justice is served and not [be] delay[ed],” he added.
Abella quoted Duterte and said, “please accept my sincerest and deepest regret” to the Korean government.
However, President Duterte on Sunday believes that the police cops would not attempt to kill people in a police camp and that PNP has “no criminal intent” on killing the foreign businessman.
President Duterte, however, believes that members of the PNP would not attempt to kill a person inside a police camp, which was allegedly what the suspect-cops did to Jee.
He said during a speech on Sunday that there was “no criminal intent” on killing the Korean national.
