“We received our mother's remains on May 6, but we have not heard from the consulate about the damages," Heathcliff Palma Rosel wrote in an e-mail sent to Migrante-Middle East on June 2.
She added that earlier they had been informed by the consulate and Kimobo International Personnel Services, who employed Rosel in the Kingdom, that the family would receive SR50,000 blood money.
John Leonard Monterona, Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator, told Arab News he had sent a letter to Ambassador-Designate Ezzedin H. Tago, with a copy to Vice Consul Lorenzo Junco, also the head of the consulate's Assistance to Nationals Section, asking to be informed about the compensation’s status.
"Please note that the family is pursuing this matter since the blood money will help her children's education. The family had been told to receive SR50,000 from the Saudi national who caused Rosel's death," Monterona wrote in his letter to Tago.
Monterona added that before sending the letter, he had repeatedly called the consulate officer in charge of repatriating remains to inquire about the compensation claim, but to no avail.
Monterona expressed surprise that the remains were repatriated without the issue of blood money being settled.
