Could a Threat to a Lawyer Be the Next Chapter in This BIR Saga?

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A lawyer receives a message meant to paralyze: someone has already been paid ₱100,000 to “shut him up.” No reason given. No explanation offered. Just a threat dropped with the confidence of someone who knows exactly what they’re doing.

And this isn’t happening in a vacuum. His client, Jude Nario, was shot to death — executed. Minutes before the bullets found him, Nario was dining with that very lawyer, Atty. Cedric Gutierrez, who had just secured his temporary release. One moment, they share a table. The next, one of them is dead and the other is being hunted through text and call.

So the question strikes like a hammer: is this threat a coincidence… or the echo of something festering inside the Bureau of Internal Revenue? A continuation of a dirty story someone is desperate to bury?