Dispatch from Crame No. 267: Sen. Leila M. de Lima’s Statement raising more questions on DOJ’s dismissal of drug trade charges vs. Kerwin Espinosa et al.

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This time, PNP Director General Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa is talking sense when he laments about DOJ not advising them that the case vs. Kerwin Espinosa, et al. was weak when PNP and DOJ are supposed to be a “team”, under one family, the Executive Branch.

Agree. That’s why I’ve been pushing for a Criminal Investigation bill which seeks a fusion of the work of both investigators and prosecutors to strengthen case build-up and ensure a higher success rate in criminal investigations and prosecution. Unfortunately, said bill, like others I filed, does not seem to merit the attention of the current Chair of the Senate Justice Committee.

But let me digress.

Media has, in the past few days, been reporting about Kerwin Espinosa’s “story” in a Senate inquiry that he gave me P8 million. Media, of course, is just recalling what transpired in that inquiry.

But I wish that there’s more context and narration of the total picture in these media items.

Yes. Kerwin did say that he gave money to me through Ronnie Dayan, a claim that the latter struggled to “corroborate.” But it was all too clear to anyone listening that their testimonies were laden with glaring, material inconsistencies.

Why? Because both lied. And that’s why the case against Espinosa, Dayan, and myself, based on their Senate testimonies, were junked by the DOJ at the PI level, for lack of probable cause. The handling prosecutors could not figure out which of the two starkly contrasting versions is acceptable. In short, both testimonies, concocted and perjured as they were, cancelled each other out.

Ngayon naman, sinabi ng CIDG na binawi ni Kerwin yung kanyang testimonya sa Senado. That’s why CIDG had to rely solely on the testimony of Kerwin’s former driver / bodyguard.

Teka muna. Kung binawi nya yung pag-amin nya bilang drug lord, malamang binawi rin nya yung kanyang sinabi tungkol sakin. And why reveal such retraction only now? Why was DOJ also mum about such retraction?

More questions pls —

Sino ba ang nag-pressure kay Kerwin para imbentuhin yung salaysay nya tungkol sakin? Si Sandra Cam ba na syang nagsundo sa kanya sa Abu Dhabi?

Sino ba ang nag-pressure kay Ronnie Dayan para magsinungaling rin? Yun bang mga opisyal ng PNP na nag-escort sa kanya from Pangasinan nung nag-surrender sya? O si Sandra Cam na naman?

Ito pa ho — Sino ang nag-utos kay Chief Insp. Jovie Espenido na panindigan yung kasinungalingan na protector ako ni Kerwin at kasama sa sinasabing blue or pink book daw? Ikaw ho ba, Gen. Bato?

You tell us this — Duterte, upon learning DOJ’s exoneration of the drug lords, punched the Palace wall? Kung totoo yan, dahil siguro nakikita na nya na unti-unti nang gumuguho yung bundok ng mga kasinungalingan nila tungkol sakin.

Bakit nyo sinisisi si Aguirre na sumusunod lang naman sa utos ng inyong Boss “to destroy de Lima at all costs”? Yun nga lang, masyadong garapal at palpak yung buong operation na ikinasa ni Aguirre, katulong ng mga katulad ni PAO Acosta, Dante Jimenez, Sandra Cam, Topacio, etc.

So what’s next? Kill them all (Espinosa, Dayan, Rafael Ragos, Peter Co, Herbert Colangco, Jaybee Sebastian, etc.), so as to silence them permanently and to keep them from exposing this monumental tapestry of lies, this huge scandal which resulted in the “grossest injustice ever perpetrated in recent memory” (to quote Justice Carpio)? Alam nyo kasing di nyo matatago nang matagalan itong iskandalo na ito.

Ako, papatayin nyo rin? Huwag naman sana. Lalo kayong mabubuking at siguradong uusigin ng taumbayan at ng buong mundo… At mananagot kayo!

God forgive all of you… ###

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