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DOJ eyes new probe into Pizarro murder

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The Department of Justice has sought another investigation to determine the identities of the other suspects in the 2020 killing of retired Court of Appeals (CA) Associate Justice Normandie B. Pizarro.

In a statement, the DOJ said the recommendation for another probe was made by a panel of prosecutors that indicted Dr. Ramon Tayag Pangan for his alleged involvement in Pizarro’s death.

Pangan was charged with murder last Dec. 21, 2021 before the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Capas, Tarlac, based on the complaint filed by Pizarro’s son, Normandie Jr., before the Special Task Force of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI-STF).

Pizarro retired in 2018, a year before his mandatory retirement at 70 years old.

The NBI confirmed that the remains of a person recovered in Capas, Tarlac last Oct. 30, 2020 were those of Pizarro’s. Reports said the late CA magistrate was last seen at a casino in Clark in Pampanga last Oct. 23, 2020.

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“The prosecutors likewise recommended that another investigation be opened against the other personalities and malefactors involved in the case as to their identities and their possible participation in the murder of the retired Justice and, if warranted, to file a complaint for preliminary investigation before the Department,” the DOJ said.

In the criminal charges filed before the RTC, the prosecutors said they found the evidence “sufficient to support a finding of probable cause that Dr. Pangan committed the crime of murder against the person of retired Justice Pizarro.”

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