Former Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief Gerald Bantag and former BuCor deputy officer Ricardo Zulueta are actually on the maintain departure checklist of the Bureau of Immigration (BI).
This comes after a Muntinlupa City courtroom issued a maintain departure order upon the request of state prosecutors to stop them from leaving the nation through the pendency of the case involving the homicide of Jun Villamor, the alleged intermediary within the killing of broadcaster Percy Lapid.
“The HDO was immediately encoded in our centralized system and may be seen by our immigration officers at all ports nationwide,” stated Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco on Friday.
“Should they be encountered in any airport or seaport, they will be prevented from departing without prior approval from the courts,” he added.
Separate warrants of arrest had been earlier issued by the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 206 and the Las Piñas City Regional Trial Court Branch 254 for Bantag and Zulueta in reference to the killings of Villamor and Lapid, respectively.
Lapid was shot lifeless by two suspects onboard a motorbike in Las Piñas on October 3, 2022.
Meanwhile, Villamor died on the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa on October 18. An post-mortem by forensic pathologist Dr. Raquel Fortun confirmed the stays of Villamor to have a “history of asphyxia by plastic bag suffocation.”
Bantag earlier claimed that every one the allegations in opposition to him had been simply fabricated. —VBL, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
