‘Take NBI off hazing probe’

The family of San Beda law freshman Marvin Reglos, who died allegedly due to fraternity hazing last month, wants the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to stay out of the probe and leave the job to the Antipolo City police.

“We will write to (Justice) Secretary De Lima and the NBI and ask them not to muddle the police’s evidence and just let the police take the lead,” Dennis Pangan, counsel of the Reglos’ family, told the Inquirer yesterday.

This was a day after NBI Death Investigation Division (DID) executive officer Danielito Lalusis disclosed that, based on a check made by the bureau, the hazing rites that allegedly killed Reglos on Feb. 19 were held not at Guillean’s Place resort in Antipolo, contrary to the police report.

Lalusis then said that members of another fraternity—not the Lambda Rho Beta which Reglos was trying to join—were staying at the resort that day.

But Pangan said: “The NBI’s statement makes it clear to us that the defense has begun preparing their evidence.

But the evidence presented to us by the police is so strong,” he said. He added that “the NBI may not be aware but they were being used by the Lambda Rho Beta Fraternity.”

The NBI’s findings were based on a site inspection and on statements made by Christian Adobo, one of the murder suspects charged by the Antipolo police, who claimed that he was neither a Lambda Rho member nor a San Beda student.

“Instead of helping in the investigation, the NBI is messing it up,” Marvin’s sister Lorvie said when reached on the phone.