The Supreme Court has been asked to stop the Department of Justice from proceeding with its reinvestigation of the drug charges filed against Cebu-based businessman Peter Lim on the ground that it “smacks of persecution, harassment, and oppression.”
In a 48-page petition, Lim pleaded the SC to issue the temporary restraining order and subsequently to nullify the order of then Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre to conduct a reinvestigation of the complaint filed against him and several others despite a resolution dismissing it for lack of evidence.
“The State cannot be allowed to resort to improper methods calculated to produce a wrongful conviction,” Lim’s petition lamented.
In a controversial resolution, a DoJ’s panel of prosecutors had dismissed the case against Lim, self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa, convicted drug lord Peter Co and several other personalities for lack of evidence.