At the resumption of the Dacer-Corbito double murder case Friday, the camp of Senator Panfilo Lacson maintained that the Justice department has no basis to implicate him in the twin killings. The Department of Justice filed murder charges Thursday last week against Lacson over the disappearance and murder of public relations practitioner Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito in 2000, when the senator was still the Philippine National Police chief. The charges were based on the testimonies of former police Senior Superintendents Cezar Mancao II and Glen Dumlao. In his affidavit executed in the United States last February 13, 2009, Mancao said he heard Lacson ordered Police Senior Supt. Michael Ray Aquino to “liquidate” veteran publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer. But in an interview over ANC, Lacson's lawyer, Alex Avisado, reiterated that the senator's camp has already submitted evidence belying Mancao's claims. He cited immigration records that the senator was in the United States with former President Joseph Estrada at the time Mancao claimed Lacson gave the order to kill Dacer, “We submitted proof that Senator Lacson was with President Estrada at that time so there was really no basis in filing this case against Senator Lacson,” said Avisado.
