Sixty-year-old former legislator and leader of a religious group, Ruben Ecleo, is escorted by plainclothes police at police regional headquarters following his arrest in Manila on July 30, 2020. - AFP
MANILA (AFP): A former Philippine congressman and religious cult leader was arrested Thursday over his wife's killing and corrupt practices, police said, ending a years-long manhunt.
Ruben Ecleo, 60, was head of a group called the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association when his wife's remains were found in a bin bag at the bottom of a ravine on the central island of Cebu in 2002.
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