MANILA, Philippines – At least nine high-level inmates at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City (NBP), the most commonly convicted drug traffickers, would have died as a result of COVID-19, adding Jaybee Sebastian, a drug co-conscientist. instances of trafficking brought against Senator Leila de Lima.
Sebastian on a list of high-level NBP prisoners who would have died from COVID-19.
The investigator asked the Corrections Office (BuCor) spokesman Gabriel Chaclag to verify the list, but Chaclag sent a message from BuCor chief Gerald Bantag, who admitted there had been deaths due to COVID-19 but refused to identify the deaths allegedly due to knowledge of the privacy law.
But the Pantheon of Dasmarias public cemetery in Dasmarias, Cavite, indexed Sebastian, Marcelo, Zhang and Hung among the 28 bodies they had incinerated since 31 May. The northern cemetery in Manila reported that they cremated a frame known as Eugene Chua.
No autopsy was performed on the cremated bodies in the Pantheon in Dasmarias, according to Rep Cavite Elpidio Barzaga.
Barzaga stated that the BuCor had paid the city of Dasmariias 15,000 P for a deceased prisoner “but our other people [in the crematorium] should no longer open the frame bags. As long as there was a death certificate and correct documents, the bodies were without a Delay incinerated.
But a senior police official, aware of the alleged deaths by COVID-19, said “high officials” had asked several police officers to “gather information” on deaths in the state penitentiary and specifically monitor any “changes in the body.”
“They may have simply replaced the frame [with some other inmate and declared the death of a high-level inmate]. How would we know? There were no more fingerprints,” said the official, who declined to reveal the main points of his investigation. . Justice Secretary Menardo Gueverra, for his part, ordered Bantag to have the alleged deaths in the penitentiary, namely those of high-level prisoners, at his workplace on 20 July.
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