Marantan gives NBI sworn statement
By Nikko Dizon
Assisted by two lawyers, Superintendent Hansel Marantan submitted a four-page affidavit to agents of the National Bureau of Investigation on Friday.

Assisted by two lawyers, Superintendent Hansel Marantan submitted a four-page affidavit to agents of the National Bureau of Investigation on Friday.

Chief Superintendent James Melad, the former director of the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) police, who rushed to the site of a supposed gun battle with alleged criminals in Atimonan, Quezon on January 6, on Friday said he could not remember what Supt. Hansel Marantan was wearing when he saw the wounded intelligence officer in the hospital.
The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) did not approve a proposed police operation against alleged “jueteng” operator Victor “Vic” Siman because it was a potentially bloody business, the Inquirer learned on Saturday.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) will expand its investigation of the killing of 13 people in an alleged shootout between government security forces and alleged criminals in Quezon province on Sunday and look into the role in the incident of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC).