, a co-accused of former senator Leila de Lima in her remaining drug case, was arrested by authorities on Wednesday, June 21, after he allegedly escaped from detention.In a press briefing on Wednesday afternoon, DOJ spokesperson Assistant Secretary Mico Clavano confirmed Dera was arrested at around midnight Wednesday while on board a van of the National Bureau of Investigation . Six NBI security officers were also arrested.
“We do not question the arrest made by the NBI on Dera and the escorts inside the NBI compound since they received information and saw that Dera was outside of the jail that night. That is their right to do so if they believed offenses were committed,” Palad told Rappler. Dera’s lawyer added that according to his client’s family, the accused had been previously allowed to temporarily leave detention due to medical reasons. The lawyer also said the NBI has a record of Dera’s visits to the medical facility.
According to Clavano, they received “confidential information about the whereabouts of Dera, which prompted them to “inform the NBI that he was not in his detention center.” This, in turn, prompted the NBI, Clavano said, to create a task force whose members waited to nab Dera by the NBI gate.
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