Judge behind Matobato arrest appointed CA associate justice

THE judge who issued an arrest warrant last year against confessed killer Edgar P. Matobato has been appointed new associate justice of the Court of Appeals (CA).
As per her appointment last Tuesday, June 19, signed by President Rodrigo R. Duterte, Regional Trial Court Judge Dorothy P. Montejo-Gonzaga of Panabo City, Davao del Norte, assumes the former post of Presiding Justice Romeo F. Barza, who was appointed to his current post in December last year.
Ms. Gonzaga ordered Matobato’s arrest in March last year, in connection with the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Turkish national Sali Makdum in the Island Garden City of Samal.
BusinessWorld had earlier reported that Matobato himself confessed to Mr. Makdum’s disappearance when he testified before the Senate last year about his crimes which he claimed were ordered by then Davao City mayor Mr. Duterte.