BuCor exec who wanted to testify on ‘freedom for sale’ scheme shot dead

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Metro Manila police chief BGen Debold Sinas says investigators have retrieved six empty shells and a slug of a .45-caliber pistol, and CCTV footage of the area where the shooting occurred.

[Translation: It's not clear if one or two people shot him, based on CCTV footage nearest the area ... What we saw there was the place, the highway. The shooting, we didn't see it. It's not so clear.]He added that they have coordinated with the BuCor for the security of Santos' family and a joint investigation on the shooting.

Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III told CNN Philippines that Santos was “ready to tell all” about the supposed anomalies surrounding the implementation of the expanded Good Conduct Time Allowance policy under the Revised Penal Code before the Senate’s last hearing on the issue.Senate Blue Ribbon committee chairman Richard “Dick” Gordon, who led the probe on supposed anomalies in the BuCor, condemned the killing, calling it a “rubout.

Gordon added that Santos is the 15th BuCor official to be killed within the vicinity of its headquarters in Muntinlupa since 2011.na kapag ikaw may nalalaman at ikaw nagsalita, kaya ka naming patayin,[Translation: It is a warning to all in this country that if you know something and you speak up, we can kill you.]

 

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