Claims linking Lacson over Dacer-Corbito case scrutinized
11/30/2010Citing additional evidence, the camp of Sen. Panfilo Lacson urged Justice Secretary Leila de Lima anew to take a closer look at claims linking the senator to the Dacer-Corbito case.
Lacson’s lawyers said the new evidence included the Aug. 2, 2010 affidavit of former SPO4 Reynaldo Oximoso Jr. and the Aug. 9, 2010 affidavit of former Senior Superintendent Michael Ray Aquino.
In their five-page letter, lawyers Alexander Poblador and Joseph Joemer Perez said they were forced to write De Lima because of former police colonel Cezar Mancao’s request to demand that former police colonel Glenn Dumlao act as a state witness in the case or have charges against him re-filed.
They disputed Mancao’s insinuation that Dumlao’s exoneration of Lacson was a turnaround from his previous testimony allegedly implicating Lacson, and that this exoneration was contrary to the terms of Dumlao’s exclusion from charges.
“We are constrained to write to you directly to set the record straight and refute Mancao’s allegations, which are obviously targeted not only at Dumlao but also at our client. The truth is that while Dumlao has implicated others, he has never implicated Sen. Lacson in the Dacer-Corbito case,” they said, adding nowhere in Dumlao’s affidavits contained any statement implicating Lacson in the Dacer-Corbito case..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20101130nat6.html
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