More cases vs people Percy Lapid case
By J.Lo
"Nag-uusap ang National Bureau of Investigation and Philippine National Police…they are talking between themselves about cases they're filing because they are filing more cases, I think," Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla told reporters more cases are set to be filed against people involved in the killing of broadcaster Percy Lapid.
Remulla made statement when asked about mastermind behind fatal shooting of Lapid, whose real name is Percival Mabasa.
According to him, investigators are still planning to talk to two or more people who are "very high in the chain of the Percy Lapid case".
"Let NBI and PNP name people that they want to charge before courts," Remulla said.
The continuation of the preliminary investigation on the murder complaint filed against confessed gunman Joel Escorial and his three other accomplices was conducted on Friday.
Escorial, who surrendered to the police, identified accomplices as siblings Israel and Edmund Dimaculangan, and certain Orly, who are all still at large.
Lapid, host of an online broadcast program and columnist for a tabloid, was shot dead in Las Piñas City on October 3.
On October 18, Escorial was presented to the media following his surrender.
Aside from the three accomplices, Escorial also identified two middlemen in the plot to kill Lapid as Cristito Villamor and Christopher Bacoto, who were detained at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) and a jail facility under the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), respectively.
On October 20, Remulla said Villamor died inside NBP on October 18, the same day Escorial was presented to the media.
Bilibid inmate with alias "Jocon'' said in a sworn statement that a mayor or alias May-may ordered him and three other inmates to kill Villamor.Jocon's statement indicated that it was he who held plastic bag to suffocate Villamor. His three companions held the alleged middleman's hands, arms and feet.
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