Mancao ready to tell all in Dacer-Corbito case since last year - DOJ chief

MANILA, Philippines - The wife of former police Senior Superintendent Cezar Mancao II has informed the government of her husband’s willingness to cooperate in the investigation on the Dacer-Corbito double murder case as early as last year, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said Wednesday. Gonzalez said he received an e-mail from Maricar Mancao last year following her husband’s arrest in Fort Lauderdale in Florida but he did not pay attention to it for fear that he would be "caught in a situation." “I don’t know him (Mancao) or his wife. I don’t want to be caught in a situation. That’s the only communication we had. I did not develop it further,” Gonzalez said. Mancao is among the suspects in the killing of publicist Salvador "Bubby" Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito in 2000. Gonzalez quoted Mrs. Mancao as saying that her husband is willing to testify in court about what he knows in the double murder. “She was asking for my help when her husband was arrested. She said they would cooperate with government if the government would help them,” he said. The Justice chief said Mancao could be extradited to the country within the next two weeks after a Florida court granted his petition to withdraw the extradition request of the Philippine government. He admitted that Mancao’s testimony could be crucial in solving the Dacer-Corbito case. Last September, the Philippine government through Justice Undersecretary Ricardo Blancaflor filed a request to extradite Mancao and another suspect, former police Senior Superintendent Glenn Dumlao, who both fled to the US to escape prosecution. The US granted the request in November. - GMANews.TV