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Police intelligence agents arrested a local “recruiter” for the Islamic State (IS) over the weekend in what was seen as a major setback for the international terror group to bolster its ranks with “imports” from outside Mindanao.
Kevin B. Madrinan, who goes by the aliases Ibrahim Abdullah Madrinan and Ibrahim Khalil Al-Garaba, was arrested around 4:50 p.m. at the corner of Atherton, Burbank Streets, North Fairview, Quezon City, according to the head of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Camilo Pancratius. Cascolan.
Madrinan, a convert from Balik-Islam, is the recruiter for Luzon from Daulah Islamiya (DI), the local front of the IS, which featured in the occupation of the city of Marawi in 2017. The DI is a name given to members and collective groups that have committed or have allied with the IS.
“Madrinan is a convert to Balik-Islam who is the contact and liaison person in Luzon for Daulah Islamiya members who come from Maguindanao under Esmael Abdulmalik alias Abu Turaife and Salahuddin Hasan alias Abu Salman, and those who come from Sulu under Mundi Sawadjaan, ”Cascolan said.
Abdulmalik and Hasan led two factions that broke away from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and allied with IS. There are other groups or factions, including the Abu Sayyaf Group, that have also been on the ISIS line.
Sawadjaan is labeled as one of the brains behind the recent twin suicide bombings in Jolo, Sulu, which killed more than a dozen people, eight of them soldiers and more than 70 people injured, most of them civilians.
Cascolan said Madrinan, who handed over a .45 caliber pistol and a fragmentation grenade during his arrest, became the DI’s recruiter in Luzon after the arrest of Datu Omar Palte, aka Allan Palty in Quezon City on January 1, 2020 .
“Madrinan is also responsible for recruiting Balik-Islam converts and facilitating their travel to Mindanao for jihad training and exposure,” Cascolan said during a news conference on Monday.
“Madrinan has ties to Yusuf Macoto of Cavite and Muhammad Paras of Bulacan, but was left behind in Luzon when Macoto and Paras joined Daulah Islamiya’s forces in the siege of the city of Marawi in 2017, where they both died.” .
Meanwhile, Cascolan directed the Drug Enforcement Group to coordinate with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Corrections regarding the alleged ongoing operation of illegal drug activities by a convicted drug dealer, including within the Bilibid Prisons.
The PNP chief issued the order following a drug raid operation in Cebu City on Sunday that resulted in the arrest of three suspects with 7 kilos of shabu worth P47.6 million.
He said one of the arrested messengers claimed that the seized drugs that came from the city of San Carlos Negros Oriental belonged to Rustico “Dikoy” Ygot, a convicted drug trafficker who is now serving a sentence in the National Penitentiary after being convicted of drug charges. in 2013.
Earlier this year, the PNP served a freezing order issued by the Anti-Money Laundering Council at two Ygot properties in Cebu.
