ARREST OF FUGITIVE BANTAG JUST A MATTER OF TIME – JUSTICE EXEC

IT’S a matter of time before fugitive ex-Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief Gerald Bantag is arrested, a justice official said on Thursday.

“Iyong kay Bantag, patuloy pa din po iyong manhunt ho natin ‘no. We have a general idea already of his whereabouts so it’s just a matter of time,” Justice Assistant Secretary Jose Dominic Clavano IV said in a press briefing in Malacañang.

“Again with these things, we just have to stay patient – these things don’t happen overnight. The wheels of justice, they grind slowly but they grind very finely so we just have to stay patient,” he stated.

Bantag was charged for masterminding the killing of broadcast journalist Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa. Mabasa was killed in October 2022.

Former BuCor superintendent Ricardo Zulueta, 42, who was also linked to the assassination of Mabasa, died due to heart failure on March 15, according to a report by the Bataan provincial police.