DILG CHIEF RAPPED FOR REJECTING BOUNTY BID
Robredo coddling Ping, Mancao’s lawyer claims
By Pat C. Santos 12/06/2010The lawyer of a key witness in the Dacer-Corbito double murder case strongly claimed yesterday that Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo gives protection to fugitive Sen. Panfilo Lacson, resulting in his being able to elude arrest from the authorities.
A crack team of National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents left empty handed the other day after conducting a raid on a paper mill suspected of being used as Lacson’s temporary lair. The paper manufacturing firm in Quezon City is owned by Sebastian Chua, a close friend of the senator.
At the weekly Balitaan sa Tinapayan, Ferdinand Topacio, counsel for former police Supt. Cesar Mancao, who has implicated Lacson in the slaying of publicist Salvador Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito, accused Robredo of protecting Lacson after the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) chief rejected a P2 million bounty for the capture of the fugitive senator.
Topacio said he cannot understand Robredo reason for rejecting placing a bounty on Lacson’s head which was his supposed worry for the life of the would be informant on the whereabouts of Lacson. He said the reward would only be for the supply of information and that an informant will not be the one who will arrest a wanted person..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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