Posted on 08/01/2007 3:04:52 AM PDT by HAL9000
The online free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, informs that noted Philippine publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer was murdered on November 24, 2000 by members of the police force.According to Wikipedia, “Bubby Dacer and his driver, Emmanuel Corbito, were abducted in Makati, the business district of Manila. They were later killed, and their vehicle dumped. In 2001, a number of arrests were made. One of the accused, police colonel Glenn Dumlao, named Cesar Mancao and Michael Ray Aquino as the organisers of the murders. Mancao and Aquino both fled the country. Dumlao later disappeared.”
“The ultimate reasons for Dacer’s murder remain a subject of debate. Fidel Ramos has publicly accused his successor, Joseph Estrada, of giving the original order – Estrada was mired in a corruption scandal at the time, and according to some reports, Estrada believed Dacer was helping Ramos destabilize his rule. Panfilo Lacson, a top police officer, is also accused by some – Dacer had worked for Roberto Lastimoso, an enemy of Lacson, and according to Dacer’s daughter Amparo, Dacer had evidence of crimes committed by Lacson.”
On July 18, 2007, former Philippine National Police (PNP) Col. Michael Ray Aquino was sentenced to six years and four months in prison by U.S. Judge William Walls in New Jersey for his role in a plot where he obtained secret U.S. documents in an effort to undermine the Philippine government.
In the 92-page memorandum submitted to the Court by U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie in support of a higher sentence for Aquino (a copy of which was obtained by this columnist), further information is provided by the prosecution on “Aquino’s involvement in the abduction and murders of Dacer and Corbito.”
The memorandum noted that PNP Col. Dumlao submitted a sworn statement on June 21, 2001 implicating Aquino and Col. Cezar Mancao in the murders of Dacer and Corbito.
“During the government’s investigation of Aquino in this matter, Dumlao affirmed that Aquino participated in the abduction of Dacer-Corbito by directing him and others to kidnap and interrogate Dacer and Corbito, and destroy evidence of the crime.”
According to the memorandum, Dumlao, in the presence of his attorney, Felix Vinluan, voluntarily provided detailed information to the U.S. government about his and Aquino’s participation in the double muders.
“Likewise, Mancao voluntarily submitted to several interviews with the (U.S.) government (in the presence of his attorney, Michael Schutt). During those interviews, Mancao told the government, among other things, that he believed that Aquino was involved in the abductions of Dacer and Corbito because Aquino told him that he had ordered others to hide evidence of the crimes.”
Aquino’s role in the murders was as “coordinator” of the “PAOCTF men in charge of abducting Dacer”. The PAOCTF is the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force headed at the time by Gen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson. It noted that Aquino “gave direct orders” to the participants “was obviously stage-managing the entire operation via cellular telephone that culminated in their slayings.”
The memorandum notes further that “in the face of multiple investigations for his involvement in, among other things, the KB (Kuratong Baleleng) Incident, the Dacer-Corbito murders, and the State of Rebellion charges, Aquino (together with Mancao) fled the Philippines on or about June 21, 2001” and went to the U.S. on tourist visas.
“Mancao affirmed that he and Aquino ‘heard’ from Lacson that they would be arrested ‘in an effort to destroy Lacson’s reputation and negatively affect Lacson’s possible chances of a presidential bid in 2004’…Lacson later directed Aquino and Mancao to leave the country.”
In the section “Aquino Acts as Lacson’s Agent After Fleeing from the RP”, the Memorandum details the activities of Aquino after entering the U.S. and moving to New York. When Lacson traveled to the U.S. in September of 2003, Aquino went with him to Florida to meet with Mark Jimenez before he was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for tax evasion and election fraud.
Leandro Aragoncillo, Aquino’s co-defendant who was sentenced to 10 years for espionage by the same federal judge who sentenced Aquino, acknowledged that Aquino was the one who informed him in September of 2003 about Lacson’s visit to Jimenez, “belying Aquino’s assertion that he had limited contact with Aragoncillo prior to January 2005”.
In January of 2005, Aquino introduced Aragoncillo to Lacson as a “U.S. Marine who was assigned to an FBI intelligence unit”. Aquino told Lacson that Aragoncillo wanted to provide Lacson with information about “briefings attended by Aragoncillo about the political situation in the Philippines…Specifically, Aquino wrote that Aragoncillo sought to provide information to Lacson about changing the current RP government with a revolutionary government”
“Aquino (using his intelligence training) suggested to Lacson that they listen to Aragoncillo and ‘confirm/check’ or vet his information. Foreshadowing efforts to remove President Arroyo, Aquino recommended to Lacson that they use Aragoncillo and his information ‘especially if this will be a catalyst for change in our country’. …Sometime shortly after, Lacson communicated with Aragoncillo. In turn, Aragoncillo began transmitting classified documents and information, including documents containing national defense information, to both Aquino and Lacson, approximately two weeks later.”
Two months later, in March of 2005, Aquino was arrested by U.S. immigration agents for being an ‘overstay’. While in federal custody, Aragoncillo visited him, identifying himself to the authorities as an FBI agent. This caused the immigration officials to inquire from the FBI about Aragoncillo’s interest in Aquino. When the FBI investigated Aragoncillo, they discovered the trail of emails from Aragoncillo to Aquino and Lacson transmitting classified FBI documents.
The Memorandum notes that it was Lacson who sent the $5,000 to Mancao in Florida to send to Aquino’s family in New York to bail out Aquino from immigration custody.
In September of 2005, both Aquino and Aragoncillo were arrested by U.S. authorities and charged with espionage and conspiracy. A year later, both pled guilty and were sentenced in July of 2007.
The Los Angeles-based daughter of Bubby Dacer, Carina, is not satisfied with the sentence of Aquino.“[Aquino] only receives orders. Like everyone else who are jailed for my father’s murder, they only took orders,” she said.
Who gave the orders to abduct and kill Dacer and Corbito?
I've suspected a link between the convicted White House spy Leandro Aragoncillo and convicted Clinton donor Mark Jimenez for a long time. Michael Ray Aquino is the link. And now a murder is involved.
(Speculation alert) One might reasonably ask how Joseph Estrada and Panfilo Lacson recruited a spy in the White House. Estrada's most notorious route of access into the 1999 White House was through Mark Jimenez, sentenced to two years in a Miami jail for federal election fraud in 2003. His sentence coincidentally, will be completely served this month.
Welllll, the MSM will say, “It’s Bush’s fault.”
Ping.
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