CEBU
Bernardo Liu, the whistleblower in a 2001 congressional hearing on a drug syndicate, was found decomposing, even if doused with oil, outside the kitchen of his house in Tangke, Talisay City on 29 September 2011 (Thursday) morning. His body tied in a rope bore no signs of strangulation. But he was gutted out, and a bolo was found near his body.
His neighbors at Naya Subdivision had not seen him for two weeks, making them suspicious. That's time the police found out his dead body. They saw him last on August 30 when his daughter visited him.
In August 2001, Liu testified before the congressional committee on dangerous drugs that Chinese-Cebuano businessmen Peter and Wellington Lim were involved in a drug syndicate known as Hong Kong Triad. He faced a complaint for illegal importation and possession of drugs after he admitted at the congressional inquiry that he ran drugs for the Lim brothers in Hong Kong. Liu’s buddy who also worked for the Lims, Ananias Dy, was gunned down on July 8, 2006 in Katipunan, Cebu City.
