Senators to Mancao: Name names behind ‘bribe’ attempt 08/19/2010

Senators to Mancao: Name names behind ‘bribe’ attempt

08/19/2010 Embattled Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson’s colleagues in the upper chamber, led by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, yesterday urged former police Senior Supt. Cesar Mancao, the state witness in the Dacer-Corbito double murder case, to openly identify the personalities who allegedly attempted to bribe him to recant his testimony against the fugitive lawmaker to ascertain if there are indeed some political maneuverings already taking place.  “He should name names, who approached him and what did they tell him, to clear this issue. We cannot just take his statement as it is. We have to assess what was said. How was the offer made? How much and who made the offer? It could have been planted, for all we know to further pin down the subject of the matter,” Enrile told reporters in an interview. “He should name them so that they will be compelled to surface. We do not know (if) there is so much maneuvering going around,” he added. Mancao claimed that he is being pressured by emissaries allegedly from the camp of Lacson to retract, in exchange of an “eight-digit” bribe, his affidavit naming Lacson as mastermind of the killings of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito in November 2000. Senators Francis “Chiz” Escudero, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and Juan Miguel Zubiri made similar calls to their beleaguered colleague. Escudero said anybody can easily make such claims and hopefully Lacson and his lawyers can refute such charges..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100819hed6.html

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