A 2003 affidavit by a former police officer tagged in the Dacer-Corbito double murder case has surfaced, saying he was pressured by high-ranking officials to link now-Senator Panfilo Lacson to the eight-year-old case.

Glenn Dumlao, a former police officer linked to the Dacer-Corbito murders, is set to return home from the United States on March 19.

National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) spokesperson Ric Diaz and NBI Interpol chief Jun de Castro are already in Los Angeles, California to bring Dumlao to Manila.

Dumlao was the deputy of superintendent Cezar Mancao, who was then head of "Task Force Luzon" of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF) when publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver, Emmanuel Corbito, were abducted and killed in November 2000.

In a handwritten affidavit in 2001, Dumlao recounted how he got involved in the operation to silence Dacer upon the orders of then senior superintendent Michael Ray Aquino, who is also a suspect in the case.

However, in May 2003 Dumlao made a second affidavit. In this affidavit, he said he was pressured and offered bribes by some government officials to link then-PAOCTF chief Panfilo Lacson to the Dacer-Corbito case.

Dumlao claimed former general Reynaldo Berroya and former military intelligence chief Victor Corpuz forced him to do that. Dumlao swore by the affidavit before a prosecutor in Manila.

Berroya denied pressuring Dumlao to link Lacson to the killings. He also said that Corpuz never took part in the case. -- With a report from Anthony Taberna, ABS-CBN News