17 November 2011

Ram's text messages unveils dispute over family's allowance

MANILA, Philippines - Text messages in the cellphone of murder victim Ramgen Revilla reveal a rift among the Magsaysay siblings over the allowances given by family patriarch and former senator Ramon Revilla Sr.

Senior Superintendent Billy Beltran, ParaƱaque police chief, said forensic investigators from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) found several text messages in Ramgen's cell phone.

The text messages were sent from October 22-27 before Ramgen was murdered on October 28 inside their home in ParaƱaque.

One text message Ramgen sent on October 26 was for his sister, Maria Ragelyn Gail, 20 years old.

The text read: "Bigay niyo naman allowance ko sobra naman kayo... sinira niyo na nga ako kay daddy tas ganyan pa.. sobra naman uan ga." Ga is Gail's nickname.
Gail's response read: "Kaya naman binawasan ni Daddy yung allowance kasi galit na galit kay Mommy. Dapat sakto talaga yung allowance. 200k dapat allowance niyo pa rin pero dahil sa galit ni Daddy kay Mommy, ginawa niya 150k."
Ramgen sent the following answer: "Salamat. Pls lang wag naman sana manira kay Daddy. Pati yung sobrang past na sinakal kita pati yun ginamit para magalit si Daddy sa akin."
"Malaki na tayo, magkaayos na dapat. Hindi maganda puro away. Nag-text ako kay Mara kanina na sana maayos na lahat ay magkabati-bati na tayo." Mara is Maria Ramona, Ramgen's sister and one of the suspects in his murder.
One of Ramgen's text messages revealed that his mother, Genelyn Magsaysay, failed to pay the electric bill despite getting the money for it.

"Nagbigay ako kay Mommy nung money for Meralco before. siya yung hindi nakabayad," the message read.
One text sent on October 27, a day before the murder, revealed that the rift among the siblings was over the sale of Ramon Joseph's Mitsubishi Strada for P800,000 or below its market value.

Ramon Joseph or RJ is one of the principal suspects in Ramgen's murder.
In his text, Ramgen wrote: "Alam ko san nag-umpisa ito, sa Strada ni Joseph. Wag na kayo mag maang-maangan pa. Sinabi ko kasi sobra mura ng benta."
Ronaldo Angcajas, Ramgen's personal assistant, earlier revealed that Ramgen and RJ had a falling-out after Ramgen told their father about the sale of RJ's car.

The police's anti-transnational and cybercrime division said they used a cellphone forensic machine to get the text messages from Ramgen's phone. The CIDG said the machine will allow them to preserve all of Ramgen's text messages.

Bautista said a transcript of all of Ramgen's text messages will be submitted to the court.

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