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THE reward money offered for any information that would lead to the whereabouts of missing Pampanga Mutya ng Pilipinas candidate and her Israeli boyfriend now reached P1.4 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Geneva Lopez, 27, and her boyfriend Yitshak Cohen, 37, mysteriously disappeared last June 21, the day they left their house in Angeles City in Pampanga.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lopez told her family that they will go to Tarlac to check a real estate property they were planning to purchase with the help of a broker.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Out of the P1.4 million reward money, P1 million was offered by Pampanga Gov. Dennis Pineda and her mother, Vice Gov. Lila Pineda while Sto. Tomas, Pampanga John Sambo offered a P150,000 bounty.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to the family of Cohen, they will be giving P250,000 cash to anybody who can give the information that would lead to the recovery of the missing couple.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As of press time, investigators from the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and the Police Regional Office 3 are looking for all available CCTV footages that would help them find the two.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lopez and Cohen disappeared just hours after the vehicle they were riding was found to be burning on a highway in Capas, Tarlac.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A second vehicle said to be connected to people who were with the missing couple was also recovered in Tarlac City.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The vehicle found in Tarlac City has been subjected into a thorough examination by the PNP Highway Patrol Group and PNP Forensic Group to determine its registered owner.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Probers are also checking who were the last persons who rode the vehicle.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PNP-CIDG director Maj. Gen. Leo M. Francisco said they are looking at seven \u201cpersons of interest\u201d in the case, one of them a former policeman from Angeles City who acted as the \u201cmiddleman\u201d of the property about to be bought by the couple before they went missing.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The PNP-CIDG chief said that the former cop has already expressed his willingness to cooperate with the ongoing investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a sworn statement he gave to the Capas City Municipal Police Station, the former cop said he met the couple in front of a gasoline station in Bgy. Cristo Rey around 2 p.m. on June 21.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n They later went to Armenia, which is accessible via Cojuangco road, on board their respective vehicles. The ex-cop said he parted ways with the couple after the two inspected two parcels of agricultural land they were planning to buy.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The following day, the missing couple\u2019s Nissan Terra SUV was found burning along the Capas-San Jose Road in Capas municipality.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Although he said they are looking into at least three motives behind the couple\u2019s mysterious disappearance, Francisco said there are still no indications that the couple have been killed already.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The PRO3 headed by Brig. Gen. Jose S. Hidalgo Jr. formed the Special Investigation Task Group \u201cGeneshak\u201d to conduct a thorough probe into the couple’s disappearance.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE reward money offered for any information that would lead to the whereabouts of missing Pampanga Mutya ng Pilipinas candidate and her Israeli boyfriend now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6994,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions\/6994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}