MANILA, Philippines – One of the former police officers linked to the murder of a publicist and his driver in 2000 will be fetched from the United States by lawyers of the National Bureau of Investigation, said INQUIRER.net sources at the Department of Foreign Affairs who are not authorized to talk to media.

Glenn Dumlao, former police superintendent of the defunct Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF), was supposed to be one of the government’s key witnesses in the Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and Emmanuel Corbito murder case but has been in hiding since middle of 2003, leading to the order for his arrest.

Lawyers Ricardo Diaz and Claro De Castro Jr. will fetch Dumlao in Los Angeles, California this weekend by virtue of the extradition order by US Judge Kathleen Tomlinson, which was certified by the State Department February 25, the DFA sources said.

Dumlao previously admitted that his unit had monitored Dacer for two months before his murder. He is said to have been hiding in the US since 2005.

Dumlao, together with other former PAOCTF officers Michael Ray Aquino and Cesar Mancao, will be extradited from the US to the Philippines, where they are facing double murder charges pending before Branch 18 of the Manila regional trial court, the DFA sources said.

The Philippines requested the extradition of the three in March 2008 after the Manila court issued warrants for their arrest in November 2007.

Mancao is also set to be extradited soon while Aquino is still
serving a sentence for espionage after his arrest in 2005.

All three were under the command of now Senator Panfilo Lacson, who was then head of the Philippine National Police.

Dacer and Corbito were abducted at the boundary of Manila and Makati.

They were killed and their bodies burned in a creek in Indang, Cavite.

NBI forensic experts later recovered Dacer’s ring and dentures from the exhumed ashes. The victim’s children confirmed that the items were their father’s.

Mancao’s wife Maricar has expressed concern over her husband’s security if he would be detained in a PNP jail.

Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said Mancao, who fled the country in 2001, as well as Dumlao, will be jailed at the NBI.