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Date: 28 February 2010
Source: http://www.cbcpnews.com/?q=node/12386

MANILA, Feb. 28, 2010— A whistleblower who linked the Arroyo administration to illegal gambling payoffs was killed in an ambush in Parañaque City Sunday morning.

According to reports, Wilfredo “Boy” Mayor, 55, died before doctors at the San Juan de Dios Hospital could treat him.

Mayor, together with Alan Castro, his son-in-law and driver, and Rommel Mayor, a nephew, were on board a blue Volvo car on their way to BF Homes in Parañaque when the incident happened at about 4:30 a.m.

The witness succumbed to gunshot wounds on his head and different parts of his body, after two men on a motorcycle fired at him, along Manila International Airport Road in Pasay City.

Reports said Castro was hit and in critical condition at the said hospital while Rommel, who was riding at the back, was unhurt.

Anti-gambling crusader Archbishop Oscar Cruz brought the issue of “jueteng”, an illegal numbers game, to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s doorstep in 2005.

In senate hearings, he and his witnesses—Mayor and Sandra Cam—testified that Arroyo, her immediate family and her associates had allegedly received money from jueteng operations.

Mayor and Cam confessed their involvements in the multi-billion peso racket are now advocates of the anti-gambling group founded by the prelate.

Cam admits being a bag lady for jueteng lords while Mayor accused Presidential son and Pampanga Representative Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo of receiving payola from gambling.

She also revealed that President Arroyo was present when a wife of an alleged jueteng operator gave out P2 million each to regional directors of the Commission on Elections during the 2004 polls.

Archbishop Cruz could not immediately be reached for comment about the tragic death of one of his witnesses. (Roy Lagarde)