DOJ moves to cancel Lacson's passport

Hoping to track down Senator Panfilo Lacson, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has started working to cancel the passport of the fugitive lawmaker implicated in the November 2000 killings of publicist Salvador "Bubby" Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito. In an interview with reporters on Tuesdsay, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said private prosectors will coordinate with the DOJ and the Department of Foreign Affairs in seeking the cancellation of Lacson's passport. "It is more of the private prosectors' task but to be supported (by) the public prosecutors," she said. Lacson's whereabouts remain unknown but the National Bureau of Investigation said in July that he was reportedly spotted in Rome, Italy. Despite being a fugitive, Lacson managed to bag the Senate committee on accounts last Tuesday. (See: Senate committees: Neophyte gets blue ribbon, Miriam nothing) Lacson is being tagged as the alleged mastermind in the Dacer-Corbito killings on Nov. 24, 2000. At the time, he was concurrent head of the Philippine National Police and the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force. He fled the country in January this year, saying former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's administration was persecuting him. — VVP/RSJ, GMANews.TV