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Do lifestyle check on BuCor officials, solon urges Palace
ACT-Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro is urging Malacañang to conduct a lifestyle check on Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) officials, both active and inactive.
Castro believes the recent developments in the murder of broadcaster Percy Lapid suggest deeper conspiracies within BuCor.
She suggests Lapid may have been targeted because he had previously called for such a lifestyle check on BuCor officials.
This call comes after suspended BuCor Director General Gerald Bantag was identified as a person of interest in Lapid's murder.
Castro also raised concerns about the death of Cristito Villamor Palaña, the New Bilibid Prison inmate identified as the middleman in the plot to kill Lapid.
She expressed hope for an independent autopsy on Palaña, emphasizing the need to gather evidence regarding his death.
Castro highlighted reported issues within the NBP, including contract killing, militarization, and corruption, questioning the possibility of prisoner rehabilitation under such conditions.
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