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By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Bumaligtad na ng pahayag si retired policeman SPO3 Arturo Lascañas kaugnay sa sinasabing pagkakaroon ng Davao Death Squad. Kung dati ay pinapasinungalingan niya ang DDS, ngayon ay inamin na niya ito at binawi ang unang testimonya sa Senado. Sa news conference na isinagawa sa Senado nitong Lunes, Pebrero 20, inamin ni Lascañas na nagbabayad si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa kanilang target na naglalaro mula […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Inihayag naman ng Malacañang na bahagi ng demolition job sa administrasyong Duterte ang pagbuhay sa isyu ng Davao Death Squad. Sinabi naman ni Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, mananagot sa kasong perjury si Arturo Lascańas dahil binago nito ang kanyang testimonya sa pagdinig ng Senado na kumukontra kay DDS whistle blower Edgar Matobato.
Lascañas resurfaces;
changes tune on DDS;
tags Duterte in killings
(Eagle News) — The retired policeman who denied the existence of the Davao Death Squad in a Senate hearing last year has retracted his statement, saying he took part in some of the alleged group’s killings when President Rodrigo Duterte was mayor of Davao. In a press conference in the Senate on Monday, SP03 Arthur Lascañas said the “anticrime group” was instructed personally by Duterte to “seek vengeance for the bombing of the San Pedro Cathedral […]
(Eagle News) – A senior police officer earlier tagged by Senate witness Edgar Matobato as being allegedly involved in extrajudicial killings in Davao City, branded Matobato as a liar and that “politics” could be behind him. Senior Police Office 3 Arturo Lascanas angrily denied at the Senate all allegations made by Lascanas against him, including his alleged involvement in the so-called Davao Death Squad. He denied that there was a Davao Death Squad, and […]
(Eagle News) – Two police officials, who had been earlier named by witness Edgar Matobato as being involved in the alleged Davao Death Squad, denied all his allegations claiming that Matobato was a “liar” pointing to specific inconsistencies in the latter’s statements. In the continuation of the Senate hearing on extrajudicial killings, the former head of the Davao Ctiy police’s heinous crime division, retired Supt. Dionisio Abude, and SPO3 Arthur Lascanas who was assigned […]
