MANILA, Philippines — The Nationwide Bureau of Investigation is wrapping up its impartial probe into the dying of flight attendant Christine Dacera, who was discovered unconscious in a Makati lodge bathtub on New 12 months, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra stated Friday.
In a message to reporters, Guevarra stated the NBI has issued a subpoena so investigators can conduct a digital examination on the contents of Dacera’s cell phone.
“The NBI expects to complete this by early subsequent week in order that its report might be submitted to and regarded by the investigating prosecution within the decision of the case,” he added.
Guevarra added this may increasingly most likely be the final within the NBI probe, including that the bureau “has already coated all doable angles.”
Guevarra ordered the bureau to conduct a separate probe into Dacera’s dying after he discovered the Philippine Nationwide Police’s dealing with of the case as “not thorough sufficient.”
The NBI has been conducting a number of assessments, together with a second post-mortem, and associated investigation since early January.
Guevarra pressured that the NBI is just not speeding its report, because the bureau desires “all bases coated” in its investigation.
The PNP had filed rape with murder complaints towards the 11 identified identified companions of Dacera the evening earlier than she died. However its personal laboratory’s medico-legal report submitted throughout the preliminary investigation dominated out murder as reason for dying.
“[T]he aortic aneurysm is taken into account a medical situation. Rape and/or drug overdose won’t consequence to the event of aneurysms,” the report signed by Police. Lt. Gen. Joseph Palmero learn.
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A forensic report additionally confirmed that the white substance recovered from the respondents was not unlawful medicine, however was salt.
The Makati prosecutor’s workplace wrapped up earlier this week its preliminary investigation probe into the PNP’s grievance.
