Ex-police officer Cezar Mancao surrenders

Former Senior Superintendent Cezar Mancao of the defunct Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force has surrendered to the Philippine National Police, a police official announced Wednesday.

Senior Superintendent Belli Tamayo, head of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-National Capital Region (CIDG-NCR), said Mancao surrendered on Monday.

“Former PSS Mancao surrendered to our office last January 30. The warrant of arrest was returned yesterday morning,” Tamayo said in a text message to GMA News Online.

“He is now under the custody of NCR-CIDG while waiting for the issuance of the commitment order,” he asdded.

Mancao is facing charges in connection with the twin killings of publicist Salvador "Bubby" Dacer and driver Emmanuel Corbito in November 2000.

He escaped from the National Bureau of Investigation in May 2013. He complained then that all the principal accused have already been cleared of the charges and are living normal lives while he remains detained.

Mancao and others involved in the case such as now Anti-Kidnapping Group Senior Superintendent Glenn Dumlao and Senior Superintendent Michael Ray Aquino fled to the US following the double murder.

They were eventually extradited to face the charges.

Dumlao has already been reinstated while Aquino was ordered released by a Manila court.

Senator Panfilo Lacson, who was accused of being one of the masterminds in the killing, has already been cleared by the Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court has upheld the CA decision. —ALG, GMA News