Philippine prisons chief denies digging escape tunnel for inmates

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Bantag said he is a scuba diver and wanted to create the “deepest swimming pool in Manila” theSun theSundaily corruption crime Manila Philippine

This photo taken on November 23, 2022 shows a bureau of corrections officer taking photos of a large pit near the official quarters of the country’s prisons chief at the New Bilibid Prison facility in Muntinlupa City, suburban Manila. AFPPIX: A Philippine corrections chief accused of ordering the killing of a journalist has claimed that a huge pit dug beside his home in a Manila prison complex was not an escape tunnel for inmates but for scuba diving.

Bantag said he is a scuba diver and wanted to create the “deepest swimming pool in Manila”, according to an interview broadcast earlier this month. Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla said last week that Bantag had told him he was searching for the fabled treasure stolen from around Southeast Asia by Japanese forces in World War II and rumoured to be buried in the Philippines.Bantag was appointed prisons chief in September 2019 by then president Rodrigo Duterte.

 

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