THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is not discounting the possibility that a person more influential than suspended Bureau of Corrections (Bucor) director Gerald Bantag...
THE National Bureau of Investigation is not discounting the possibility that a person more influential than suspended Bureau of Corrections director Gerald Bantag masterminded the killing of veteran radio broadcaster Percy Lapid .
On Monday, November 7, the NBI and Philippine National Police filed murder complaints against Bantag, Bucor security official Senior Superintendent Ricardo Zulueta and Persons Deprived of Liberty Denver Batungbakal Mayores, Alvin Cornista Labra, Aldrin Micosa Galicia, and Alfie Peñaredonda over Lapid’s killing on October 3 in Las Piñas.
Several PDLs who are now under the custody of the NBI admitted involvement in Palaña's killing, saying there was an order following the surrender of Escorial. In a joint statement, the Department of Justice and Department of the Interior and Local Government said Zulueta, a trusted aide of Bantag, called Mayores, who is detained at the Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm in Palawan, and inform him about the assassination plan against Lapid.
Palaña, a member of the Sputnik Gang, relayed the message to Christopher Bacoto, who contacted Escorial. The DOJ and DILG said Bantag has a clear motive in ordering the execution of Lapid amid his continuous tirades against him in his radio/online program “Lapid Fire.”
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