Mancao back Thursday; Dumlao vows to help DOJ probers
FORMER police Senior Supt. Cesar Mancao II, who was linked to the killing of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito in 2000, is expected to arrive in Manila from the United States on Thursday morning.
Lawyers Claro de Castro, Jr. chief of the NBI Interpol Division, and Ric Diaz, chief of the Anti-Terrorism Division (ATD), flew to the United States to escort Mancao from Los Angeles to Manila.
From Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US Marshals would bring Mancao anytime now to the Los Angeles detention facility.
Reports said US Marshals would turn over Mancao to the NBI team at the Los Angeles airport just hours before the flight back to Manila.
This developed as former Senior Supt. Glenn Dumlao has agreed to be extradited from the United States and even offered to help the government in ferreting out the truth when the Department of Justice reopens its preliminary investigation into the killing of Dacer and Corbito in November 2000, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said yesterday.
Gonzalez yesterday disclosed that Dumlao decided to withdraw an earlier opposition to his extradition and would only need to settle just one more legal impediment, which is to submit his deposition in connection with the pending extradition of the third suspect, former Senior Supt. Michael Ray Aquino.
After his deposition, Dumlao will not resist his return to the Philippines and testify on the Dacer-Corbito double murder case.
Gonzalez said Dumlao talked to officials of the Philippine consulate in Los Angeles, California and agreed to cooperate with government’s reinvestigation of the case.
“He (Dumlao) will testify. He said he wants to tell the truth. He will affirm his first affidavit,” the DOJ chief said in an interview.