Kerwin Espinosa on his statement vs Senator Leila De Lima: All were lies
SELF-CONFESSED drug lord Rolan “Kerwin” Espinosa admitted that the allegations he made against opposition Senator Leila de Lima, which implicated her in the illegal drugs trade resulting in her detention, were made-up stories he was forced to “invent” due to the pressure from policemen.
Espinosa’s father, former Albuera Leyte mayor Rolando, was killed after allegedly fighting it out against cops during a search operation inside his detention cell at the Baybay sub provincial jail in November 2016. “Any statement he made against the senator are false and was the result only of pressure, coercion, intimidation, and serious threats to his life and family members from the police who instructed him to implicate the senator into the illegal drug trade. For this, undersigned apologizes to Senator De Lima,” it added.
“He was also misled by the police into signing the same due to verbal promise of dismissal of cases filed against him which promise turned out to false,” the affidavit stated. Palad said following his client’s move, the government has resorted to using 27 other drug and crime personalities who were charged on the basis of Espinosa’s Senate confession to further pin down De Lima.
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