The Wutz Up in the Philippines!

Ricardo Diaz, deputy director of the National Bureau of Investigation, said agents were following leads the senator was in Taiwan, where he is said to have connections in high places, but “initial verification yielded negative results.”

“We are looking at mainland China, not Taiwan. I cannot give you details but we are verifying our leads that the senator may be in mainland China,” Diaz said.

The senator, who is wanted in connection with the Dacer-Corbito double murder case, flew to Hong Kong in early January then disappeared

NBI Director Nestor Mantaring said Monday he had opened communication lines with Lacson’s lawyers in a bid to convince the fugitive senator to give himself up.

He also disclosed that he was coordinating with the Philippine National Police to put a price on Lacson’s head.

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(Updated 7:21 a.m.) MANILA, Philippines - Former police Senior Superintendent Cezar Mancao II is back in the Philippines, vowing to divulge what he knows about the killing of veteran publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and driver Emmanuel Corbito in November 2000.

“I have mixed emotions. I am happy, I am sad,” Mancao briefly told GMA news anchor Arnold Clavio in a telephone interview early Thursday moments after their plane landed at the Ninoy Aqino International Airport.

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