Dumlao no longer a suspect in Dacer case - lawyer

A Manila court on Thursday removed former police Superintendent Glenn Dumlao as one of the suspects in the November 2000 killing of publicist Salvador "Bubby" Dacer and driver Emmanuel Corbito. "Tinanggal na ng court si Colonel Dumlao (The court already removed Colonel Dumlao among the list of the suspects)," said lawyer Ferdinand Topacio in a phone interview with GMANews.TV Topacio is the legal counsel for former police Senior Superintendent Cezar Mancao II, Dumlao’s former colleague at the defunct Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF). GMANews.TV tried to verify the information from Dumlao’s lawyers, but they could not be reached. The ruling of Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 18 Presiding Judge Myra Garcia-Fernandez was in accordance with the Mancao affidavit points to Lacson as slay mastermind] Dumlao’s motion Radio dzBB reported that Manila RTC Branch 18 Presiding Judge Myra Garcia-Fernandez granted Dumlao’s motion to delist him off the charge sheet. In his motion, Dumlao questioned his inclusion as a suspect, noting that the Supreme Court had already discharged him in its October 2005 ruling. "On June 7, 2006, the prosecution...filed a Compliance with attached Amended Information re-including (Dumlao) as among the accused," the motion read. It added that the Amended Information was not in accordance with the high court's ruling that excluded Dumlao from the list of the accused. The prosecution later acknowledged that they made a mistake in including Dumlao in the list of the suspects. 'Root of problems' Dumlao was Mancao's former subordinate at the PAOCTF, the police unit that allegedly carried out Dacer and Corbito's killing on Nov. 24, 2000. At the height of the investigations on the crime, Mancao fled to the United States in 2001. Dumlao also went to the US in 2003. The Philippine Department of Justice worked for the two former policemen's extradition in 2008. Mancao returned to the Philippines in June 4, 2009 while Dumlao was successfully extradited on July 26, 2009. Upon his arrival, Dumlao vowed he finally confront the root of his problems "that had long hounded him." - GMANews.TV