Last March 20 at around 6-7 early morning, Senator-elect Panfilo Lacson was set to meet his provincial entourage around Isabela for series of guest speakerships. Well, the “premature” politicking goes more than just a reach-out to the voting public. On March 21 (a day after his stay in Cabatuan), Lacson met with Juliet Dumlao (wife of Glenn Dumlao) inside Amity Hotel. Long before that, Ping was frequently seen meeting Mrs. Dumlao last March 12 near Narag Hospital in Cauayan, Isabela. These secret meetings were ofcourse fitting as former superintendent Cesar Mancao wrote an affidavit putting Lacson on hot seat of prime suspects for the Dacer-Corbito double murder. Rumor has it that Ping is actually manipulating the Dumlaos. Lacson was apparently trying to buy Glenn out and have him recanting his previous statements that could ofcourse scrap Mancao’s affidavit.
Can you just imagine how the good senator turned tables for his benefit?
Other than this by-out with the Dumlaos, Lacson previously divulged supposed conversation with Mancao last January of 2007, where the senator is insinuating that Mancao promised him loyalty then and that he could only be forced now in exchange of so-called re-instatement package. The brief sms message was one way or another successful in putting malicious skepticism to the disclosed affidavit. Lacson made it sure that the people doubt Mancao’s intent to include establishing his claimed Malacañang power play.
But he can’t fool Juan dela Cruz with such “charm”, can’t he?
A look back with the Dacer-Corbito case one could outlay the importance of both Dumlao and Mancao continually sticking to their sworn statements. And ofcourse, one could also see the “importance” of Lacson sabotaging it to protect not only his reputation but his 2010 presidential candidacy.
Mancao was Lacson’s former aide and head of PAOC-TF Luzon Task Group. He was under Michael Ray Aquino who was then the PAOC’s Chief of Operations. Meantime, under Mancao was Glenn Dumlao, his Luzon-TG Opns Chief. Initial inquest of the Dacer-Corbito case in 2000 involved the outright identification of Dumlao by now detained SP04 Mariano Soberano, SP03s Jose Escalante and Mauro Torres together with PO2 Thomas Sarmiento. All these detainees admitted guilty to the murder slay. All four particularly Torres actuated the killing of Dacer and Corbito together with two other PAOC-TF civilian informants tagged Digo de Pedro (still at large) and suspect turned state witness-Alex Digoy.
In rationale, initial investigations had already nipped the heads of abovementioned subordinates who unfortunately lived-up to the orders from the higher ups. At this point, loose ends in the trial and verdict of said case lies greatly on the so-called 3-kings of PAOC-TF (Aquino, Mancao and Dumlao). This 3-kings is where the controversial order to kill Dacer had in fact originated. And with Mancao’s affidavit, strong evidence is on hand to incriminate both Lacson and deposed President Joseph Estrada to the case. Dumlao who is also facing extradition in the US is at this time the only one who could corroborate the said affidavit. His presence in the trial together with Mancao is formidable substance for the prosecution.
Other than the secret meetings with Dumlaos family in Isabela, the flight of Lacson’s finance officer in the US jives well with the $100,000 extradition bail bond guaranteed for Glenn. The bail actuality made it possible for Glenn to stay a lot longer in the US. Thus, it is a possibility that Lacson at this early stage could be buying Glenn’s recantations through his wife. Besides, it had been rumored before that Lacson actually financed Dumlaos flight to the US last 2005 in the first place. He definitely could have drawn-out the cash on this one. Let us not forget it would be worth Lacson’s career.
Lacson knows well enough that only through Dumlao withdrawing his previous testimony can the Dacer-Corbito case turn positively for his sake.
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