The Philippine National Police has echoed the National Bureau of Investigation’s denial that the suspects of a raid in a farm in Teresa, Rizal, which yielded high-powered firearms, were linked to the “Red October” ouster plot claim of the military. Año, however, confirmed the existence of an ouster plot: “We received information on initial recruitments for the Red October plot early this month. Macario Liwanag, spokesperson of NPA-Rizal, denied that the communist rebels had anything to do with the arms cache recovered from the farm in Teresa, Rizal, on Sept. 25. “They made it big and dramatic so the supposed ouster plot against Duterte will be blamed on the revolutionary movement,” the rebels said. The municipal government of Teresa, meanwhile, issued a statement, saying that the farm was already a part of Barangay Maybangcal in Morong town.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 28, 2018 21:00 UTC