There were some witness that they're also about to be abducted but luckily was able to escape from that kidnapping. We can rely on that explanation that it's for real but yes, it's better to use the term speculate. But this has been said by the investigation of the policemen that's assigned for this task to know who's behind of it but until now, they don't know who's the mastermind of it or let's say they know but it's a big fish and they don't want to get involved and just do the typical job of investigating.
Better to be safe as we those who are investigating knows how deep the circle of those PNP officials behind, they don't want to burn everything and ended up proving nothing, just like how the drug syndicate as per the President itself, high rankings generals are part of the syndicate and those low level are afraid or not willing to dive deeper knowing the consequences,
It's really hard to prove if the working bodies are unsure, even the live witnesses and all the evidences are already being submitted.
Just wait and see if the new government will continue to proceed finding and convicting all the proven people behind this kidnapping.
Knowing the justice system in the Philippines, it will probably take a lot of time before this case will be solved, or worse this case will not be solved due to a lack of evidence especially the witness of the crime. That's the kind of justice we have in the Philippines, so the government just decided to ban E-Sabong so it will not happen again.
Witnesses are actually afraid and were even silenced because the people behind this huge kidnapping case are a powerful syndicate and they can even manipulate the government through their money. It's a good thing that they have banned it because it could continuously cause more massive crimes. I really hope that justice could still be served to the victims and yes, it could really take time but I guess big personalities behind it would use their money to save themselves from this case.
