The prosecutors in a motion to the court on Thursday, said
they would like to Rafael Ragos, the former Bureau of Corrections officer in
charge, as a co-respondent in one of the illegal drug cases filed against the
detained senator and Ronnie Dayan, her former bodyguard-driver.
“We have asked the
court for the dropping of Ragos as one of the accused… We will utilize him as a
prosecution witness,” Senior Assistant Prosecutor Ramoncito Ocampo Jr.
said.
De Lima described the
prosecution’s move as “very suspicious.”
The detained senator is
scheduled for Tuesday to enter her plea before Executive Judge Juanita Guerrero
of Branch 204 of the Muntinlupa City Regional Trial Court.
“It just means that
this was a done deal already,” De Lima said as she was escorted out of the
court on Thursday. “But I don’t blame Ragos. Maybe he was coerced or threatened
to do it.”
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