Pinoy Businessman offers P5M

US-based Pinoy Businessman offers P5M to root out Glorietta bombers

Lucky Group of Companies founder and philanthropist Rene Medina, announced Sunday, October 21 that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has accepted his personal offer of PhP 5 million (about $114,000) as reward to anyone with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the blast of Glorietta 2 mall in Makati last Friday, October 19.

The afternoon blast killed 11 people and injured more than 100 others, mostly office employees on lunch break. It left an eight meter-wide (26-foot) wide crater on the ground floor and blew a hole through the ceiling on the second floor.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has offered Php 2 million ($45.5 million) in reward money as well, aside from another PhP 1 million each from a group of Makati businessmen and the Makati city government. The Philippine National Police has reportedly also put up a PhP 2-million bounty.

The Lucky Group, which is based in the Bay Area, consists of six companies including Lucky Chances Casino in the town of Colma near Daly City. Nine years after he first opened Lucky Chances in 1998, Medina has sold the entire business to his two sons this year.

Touted as one of America’s most successful Filipino entrepreneurs, Medina is also a known philanthropist – helping fund worthwhile causes and projects in the Bay Area, especially where Filipinos are involved.

source: http://www.gmanews.tv/