Exclusive- Police Superintendent Maria Christina Nobleza who was arrested with alleged bomb expert and Abu Sayyaf member Renierlo Dongon last April in Bohol received money transfers from a couple suspected by authorities as the ISIS links here in the Philippines.
The Syrian woman identified Rahaf Zina, and her Kuwaiti husband, Husayn Al-Dhafiri sent money transfers directly to Nobleza from the period of April 2015 to April of 2017. Zina was arrested last March 25 in Taguig with her husband, Al-Dhafiri was deported ahead of Zina.
Military and police intelligence reports identified Zina as the widow of Abu Jandal Al-Kuwaiti, the second highest ISIS leader in Syria who was killed in a combat operation. She then remarried within the terror group, her current husband Dhafiri, which according to intelligence reports is an ISIS bomb-maker.
Radyo Inquirer through a highly placed sourced in the police intelligence community was provided a copy of the remittances made by Zina to Nobleza made through the same private remittance company.
The source of Radyo Inquirer said, the copy of the transactional records was given to the Office of the National Security Adviser, the Department of Justice, and the Office of the President. In one speech, President Rodrigo Duterte said Nobleza directly received money from ISIS. “And one of those who was the recipient of a huge amount is a member of the Philippine National Police. Yung si Nobleza. She was not only in cahoots, but she was an active player in the terrorism business, “the President revealed when he spoke at the 119th Anniversary of the Philippine Navy.
In another statement, Duterte said, “Nobleza deserves to be hanged in public” for being a traitor to her country.
The source said, these transaction records from a remittance company was among the basis of Duterte’s statement.
The transactional data of remittances made by Zina to Nobleza include the following: 20 April 2015 to Maria Cristina Brugada Nobleza amounting to USD 4,730.00 from Muscat in Oman and was picked-up in Puan, Davao City; 11 August 2015, this time sent from Doha, Qatar amounting to USD 6,400.00 and was picked-up from the remittance company branch at a mall in Davao City; 4 November 2015,again from Muscat, Oman amounting to USD 2, 950.00; 22 November 2016 from Doha, Qatar amounting to USD 4, 920.00, and last 2 March 2017, from Zina, but from a local branch of the remittance company in Lahug Cebu and was picked-up from a mall in Lanang, also in Davao City amounting to P125,300,00.
On the transactional record provided by the source from the intelligence community, Nobleza also received money from Zina’s husband Al-Dhafiri at least on three occasions. From Doha, Qatar, the amount of USD 2,540.00 was sent to Nobleza and was picked-up from the remittance center’s branch located at JP Laurel in Davao; USD 6,880.00, again from Doha, Qatar sent last 2 April 2016 and was picked-up at Damosa, Davao, and last 18 September 2016, USD 1,600.00 sent from Doha, Qatar and was picked-up at a branch at P Rizal in Davao,
Nobleza also received remittances from other names and locations as indicated in the transactional record of the same remittance company. The other locations include, Pegandian, Jakarta, Indonesia, Alkandrah, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Damansaraya Jaya in Selangor, Malaysia, Al Anzari Exchange,United Arab Emirates, and Stockholm, Sweden. The accumulative value of the money based on the transactional records amount to more than 4-Million.
Nobleza was assigned in key offices during the period covered, the Intelligence Group of the Philippine National Police and the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC), the Office of the Chief PNP, and her last assignment, as deputy chief of the PNP Regional Crime Laboratory Office in Davao.
The Syrian and Kuwaiti couple Dhafiri and Zina, before they were arrested and deported by the Bureau of Immigration, stayed in different areas of the country like Metro Manila. Cebu, Davao, and Zamboanga.
Radyo Inquirer learned from intelligence sources that the couple believed to be linked to ISIS militants did not only visit the country but were able to put up businesses in Mindanao through local contacts. Including Nobleza.