While a copy of former Lacson aide Cesar Mancao’s affidavit has not publicly surfaced, the lawyer of the Dacer family Atty. Demetrio Custodio, who claimed he has seen a copy, confirmed that it jibes with former police senior superintendent Glenn Dumlao’s original affidavit pinning down a "higher official" in the murder of publicist Salvador ‘Bubby’ Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito.

This was revealed during a recent interview on ANC’s Talk Back with Tina Monson Palma.

In the same interview, Senior State Prosecutor Phillip Kimpo of the Department of Justice revealed that Dumlao has issued three affidavits on the case.

The first one, a nine-page affidavit, linked police superintendents Michael Ray Aquino and Mancao and a higher official with a code name ‘71’ to the Dacer-Corbito double murder case. 

The second one stated that he was only coerced to write the first affidavit and pin down Senator Panfilo Lacson.

A third one, executed while his extradition was already being processed, affirmed the authenticity of the first.

Lacson

Participating by phone in the interview, Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) Assistant Secretary Reynaldo Berroya, who initially investigated the case when he was the Chief of the Philippine National Police-Intelligence Group said, “No one else could have masterminded this than Senator Lacson.”

The known nemesis of Lacson added he was asked to tell DOJ what he knows, and that his “only intention is to help the truth come out” because there are families who have been unjustly suffering.

Meanwhile, Senator Lacson, who was the PNP Chief and concurrent head of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF) when the disappearance of Dacer and Corbito happened, dismissed allegations linking him to the crime saying, “Malacañang has started to send in the clowns once more…to make my life more exciting.”

The Dacer family lawyer said they are now studying their options of whether to file a motion for the reopening of the case or file an entirely new case.

Custodio believes the "totality of the evidences," including the affidavits of Mancao and Dumlao and the testimony of Berroya, will speed up the resolution of the case.

Senior State Prosecutor Kimpo, on the other hand, said that as soon as Mancao and Dumlao arrive from the United States, they will proceed with the prosecution of the case and would ask for the arrest of other suspects who are still at-large and who can give corroborative evidence.