FORMER police officer Cezar Mancao II, who is one of the suspects in abduction and murder of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito, has surrendered to the police Monday morning.
Mancao, the subject of an arrest warrant issued by Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 18 Judge Myra Garcia Fernandez on April 28, 2006, surrendered to the Philippine National Police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Camp Crame.
Upon his surrender, Mancao was subjected to booking process and medical examination and was temporarily detained at the CIDG office pending the return of warrant to the issuing court.
Mancao, 53, is a Philippine Military Academy classmate of PNP chief Ronald dela Rosa.
Aside from Mancao, also accused in the double murder case were former PNP chief and now Senator Panfilo Lacson and former Senior Supt. Michael Ray Aquino, who have both been cleared by the courts.
Lacson, whom Mancao linked to the double-murder case, was cleared by the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court upheld the CA’s decision in 2015.
As for Michael Ray Aquino, the Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of murder case against him in connection with the Dacer-Corbito case in 2014.
Dacer was killed after he met then President Joseph Estrada at Malacañang purportedly after discussing a media campaign because of an ongoing impeachment campaign in 2000.
After the meeting, Dacer was supposedly on his way to former President Fidel Ramos to show vital documents pertaining to the stock manipulation scandal involving the listed gaming firm BW Resources. Dacer and Corbito were snatched Nov. 24, 2000 along Osmeña Highway in Makati City.
Later, the burned bodies of Dacer and Corbito were found in Indang, Cavite. They were identified through dental records.