Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla attributed the delay in the formal filing of a criminal complaint against suspended Negros Oriental 3rd District Rep. Arnolfo “Arnie” Teves.
JUSTICE Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla on Monday attributed the delay in the formal filing of a criminal complaint against suspended Negros Oriental 3rd District Representative Arnolfo “Arnie” Teves in connection with the killing of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo and nine others last March 4 to the sudden decision of several suspects not to cooperate.
The Department of Justice chief said the suspects, who were supposed to serve as witnesses as well, decided to lawyer up when the investigators were already zeroing in on Teves’ role in the Degamo killing. “Some of them have refused to speak already and they have not issued another statement and we suspect that they will change their statements later on and may make recantation of sorts. But we’re not afraid of that because everything was clearly given and said in front of counsel and other people,” Remulla stressed.
“But when we were already pursuing the participation of Congressman Teves…many of them have already lawyered up by this time. Meaning by lawyered up, they were provided with lawyers by some people who are paying for their lawyers, who were not there before and obviously some people are interested with the statements they want to give and now they don’t want to cooperate anymore with authorities,” Remulla recalled.
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