DEGAMO SUSPECTS CLAM UP AS DOJ PUSHES BACK CASE FILING VS. TEVES

By Rey E. Requejo

JUSTICE Secretary Jesus Crispin Re - mulla disclosed Monday that the filing of murder complaints against suspended Negros Oriental Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. has been pushed back. This was after several suspectsturned-witnesses in the assassination of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo have now refused to cooperate after lawyering up.

Remulla said the Department of Justice was supposed to file the charges on Monday, adding that the cases against Teves would be filed “most probably on Wednesday,” May 17, before the DOJ by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).

He cited the reasons for the delay, such as the suspects already in the custody of law enforcement agencies starting to be represented by lawyers. “They were provided with lawyers by some people who are paying for their lawyers who were not there before,”