That’s why there’s no setting yet of our request—hearing for the request of asylum,” Quilang told reporters at the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday. Garma, a key witness in the congressional inquiry into extrajudicial killings during the drug war under the administration of Rodrigo Duterte, had bared a reward system for the police applied by the former president in the liquidation of drug suspects. Barayuga case Quilang was at the DOJ on Monday for the preliminary investigation of the murder and frustrated murder complaints filed against his client, in connection with the July 30, 2020, killing of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) board secretary Wesley Barayuga. The murder charges were filed in February by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of the Philippine National Police and the National Bureau of Investigation. Santie Mendoza and his informant, Nelson Mariano, confessed to their involvement in Barayuga’s murder and said they were taking orders from then National Police Commissioner Edilberto Leonardo—who in turn pointed to Garma, at that time the PCSO general manager, as the mastermind. Read Full Story
