Wrong focus
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Justice Chief Leila de Lima yesterday told media that her National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) tracker team has already located Joey Filart in the United States. Filart is another accused in the Vizconde murder case who fled the country and did not serve jail time.
That was pretty fast work, if true, which makes one wonder why the same NBI can’t still track down fugitive Sen. Panfilo Lacson, who would more or less be in the same fleeing boat Filart is.
It has been close to year since Lacson went into hiding to evade an arrest warrant and still the NBI appears to be clueless on his whereabouts. Yet Filart, a wanted man with an arrest warrant and accused of murder, has suddenly been found by the NBI tracking team and in the US, too in less than a month.
What disturbs is not so much Filart being found by the NBI, but why the Justice chief, as can be gleaned from her statements to media, focuses the probe on Hubert Webb, et al. much too much, even as she says that having located Filart confirms his existence and builds up the credibility of state witness Jessica Alfaro, who was discredited as a credible witness by the Supreme Court (SC) when it ruled to acquit Webb and his group..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110105com2.html
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