Erap, Lacson wash hands off Dacer-Corbito murders

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mga cebuano ayaw gyud tawon ninyo ibutang ilang pangalan sa inyo unya votes for 2010, kaila na kaayo ta ani nila. sa panahon ra gyud sa election ta kabawos ani nila kay ang atong ombudsman inutil against graft and corruption.

[peewee_toot]

^^lisud kaayu ni bro oi. let's just pray nga gamiton na jd ang utok sa kadaghan ining butar this 2010. mytag dli na cla mgpa dala sa mga drama sa mga wai ayu nga politiko. kasagaran ra ba nato dali ra madani, esp kng naa nay kwarta involved..

[necrotic freak]

unsaon nalang ang mga chinese community ani nga diehard kaayo ni lacson?

[giddyboy]

Lacson worried by ‘persecution’
By Christine Avendaño
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:38:00 05/25/2009

MANILA, Philippines—Persecution, not prosecution.

Sen. Panfilo Lacson said he was more worried about being persecuted—not prosecuted—by the gov't when his former police aide Cezar Mancao II returns to the country.

“Inevitably, he will come home. It’s a matter of time... Let’s just wait for his return,” Lacson said of Mancao who is due to return from Miami, Florida, where he has been detained since Nov last year when he was arrested on the strength of extradition requests from the Philippine gov't.

Mancao has been charged, along with 18 others, for the murder of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver, Emmanuel Corbito, in 2000.

Interviewed Sunday over radio station dzBB, Lacson said it was better for Mancao, who was under him when he was head of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force, to come home and defend himself by telling the truth.

“Ang kinatatakutan ko lang yung persecution, hindi prosecution (What I’m worried about is the persecution and not the prosecution),” he said.

Lacson has denied any part in the Dacer-Corbito case, claiming he has been persecuted by the Arroyo admin since he ran for senator in 2001.

While in jail in the US, Mancao executed an affidavit where he alleged that Lacson had ordered the killing of Dacer in 2000.

full article:
wsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20090525-206951/Lacson-worried-by-persecution

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Editorial:Ping’s trail
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 23:20:00 05/24/2009

When Panfilo Lacson was appointed Phil National Police chief, in Nov 1999, his much-anticipated term got off to a spectacularly bloody start. Elements of Lacson’s elite Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF) killed seven suspected robbers & a bystander—later alleged to be the robbery gang’s mastermind, in disguise—in what some witnesses described as a “rubout,” in Fairview, Quezon City.

Top lawyer-politicians immediately sounded the alarm.

Sen. Raul Roco told a news conference: “Lacson must be made to explain: Why, on your second day, did seven people die? How many will die on the third day? What are your projected plans on the 14th day?”

Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. called on the PNP to disclose the true circumstances of the killings. “Otherwise, the apprehension will continue that extrajudicial killing or vigilante justice is now taking place all over the country.”

Rep. Joker Arroyo sketched a disturbing profile of Lacson’s brand of law enforcement. There is an emerging “pattern” in the way Lacson and his unit conduct their operations, he said: “All the suspects are killed.” He also noted that, in the Fairview killings as in the Kuratong Baleleng case of 1995, “the victims were relatively small time.”

In this same space, this newspaper on Nov. 19, 1999 took due note of the new PNP chief’s “Dirty Harry” reputation: “The only thing missing from his initial instructions is a clear reminder to the officers and men of the PNP to do everything within the bounds of the law. Perhaps Lacson should do this very soon, if only to reassure those who fear that the extra-legal methods he has been accused of using in the past would become the standard operating procedure of the PNP under his command.”

We take this gruesome detour down one of the darker alleys off memory lane to begin to place in context the impending return of former-fugitive-turned-state-witness Cezar Mancao II. The former PAOCTF official, now in solitary confinement at a gov't detention facility in Florida, in the US, is a key witness in the double murder of the well-known publicist, Salvador “Bubby” Dacer, and his driver Emmanuel Corbito, in Nov 2000.

Mancao has claimed that Dacer (code-named Delta) and Corbito were killed to please “Bigote” (a reference to Joseph Estrada, the President at the time) on Lacson’s express instructions. (Both Lacson and Estrada have vigorously denied the allegations.)

Mancao’s lawyer in the US, Arnedo Valera, told the Phil Daily Inquirer by e-mail that the last legal obstacles to Mancao’s extradition to the Phils were finally hurdled in the former police officer’s May 22 deposition. “He confirmed and reaffirmed the truth of the facts stated in his affidavits of March 1, 2007, and Feb. 14, 2009, pinpointing the involvement of his colleague, Michael Ray Aquino, in the double murder case of Dacer and Corbito,” Valera said.

But the questions Mancao must face on his return cannot be limited to the Dacer-Corbito case of Nov 2000, especially if we place full credit on the instinctive reaction of a Roco, a Pimentel or a Joker Arroyo to the multiple killings of Nov 1999. Phrased another way: If the assassination of Dacer, who many now believe possessed intimate & incriminating knowledge of criminal wrongdoing by high officials, does indeed form part of a “pattern,” then Mancao, once Lacson’s operations chief for all of Luzon, must testify about other crimes too.

It is unfortunate that Lacson has declared a second presidential run; whatever Mancao may say can now be spun as partisan politicking of the crassest sort. We can only hope that other aspirants for the presidency, including Sen. Manuel Villar, who has been on the receiving end of Lacson’s own sharp criticism, keep their hands off Mancao’s return, or his testimony.

That will prove much easier to say than do, because as Dante Jimenez, founding chair of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption reported the other day, Mancao was ready to “testify on the Dacer-Corbito case & other crimes.”

The same wisdom Lacson offered to Villar now applies to him too: His fullest defense, his most complete exoneration, now rests on the legal process itself.

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Lacson readies ‘text’ defense in Dacer case
By Christine Avendaño
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 18:43:00 05/24/2009

MANILA, Philippines -- Senator Panfilo Lacson is planning to use the text messages of former police officer Cezar Mancao II in his defense if the latter returns and testifies against him in court in the Salvador "Bubby" Dacer-Emmanuel Corbito double murder case.

In an interview with dzBB, Lacson said on Sunday the text messages, sent in 2007, included Mancao's assertion that Major Gen Romeo Prestoza called Mancao and asked him to link Lacson to the Dacer case in exchange for his return to the police service & other privileges.

Prestoza was chief of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) in 2007. He now heads the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP).

full article:
Lacson readies ‘text’ defense in Dacer case - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

[bulad_pinikas]

si hudas ra diay kamao mang hugas og kamot

[rockrhyan1982]

ngita napud nig lusot si LACSON,sus!hapit na raba 2010..dinautay nasd ni!hahaha same old politics..

[gargoyle]

sige ra man ni sila investigate, senate hearing and so and so. . .pero wala ra ghapoy resulta makalimtan ra gihapon, sa sunod election nasad mabuhi ang issue...haaaay

[samsungster]

inevitable mancao is coming home next week. erap and lacson will now face the music.

[giddyboy]

inevitable mancao is coming home next week. erap and lacson will now face the music.

i just hope dili ma assassinate c Mancao even before he could step his foot at the senate investigation. pero kani overshadowed gihapon ni sa Halili-Kho scandal...hehe

[baby_grace]

I think Erap and Lacson will act like scheming little rats when Mancao comes back to the country. These two will try to find a loophole in the affidavit and probable testimony of Mancao to discredit him more. Of course, this will be another excuse for Erap and Lacson to blame the administration for alleged political persecution.

Justice is evasive in this Dacer-Corbito case. All because of these two liars who deny their involvement in the murders. We'll see what happens next.