Dacer-Corbito case will not be closed without Tan Testimony

Dante Tan

The Dacer-Corbito case will never be totally closed without the testimony and arrest of Dante Tan. Tan, who was involved in the very controversial BW Shares scandal, left for Canada shortly after the EDSA dos revolution. NBI sources say he's either in Canada or New Zealand. The question is---why is he not being pursued?


Tan was a client of the late publicist. Tan was a very close buddy of former president Joseph Estrada. At the height of the BW scandal, Tan, according to several sources, gave several incriminating documents to Dacer.

Dacer consulted former president Fidel Valdez Ramos and wanted to come clean on the issue. It was then the impeachment trial and the BW shares were being discussed in public. 


Based on several accounts submitted by those involved in the case, Tan reportedly got angry. Several days later, Dacer went missing. The publicist vehicle was recovered.


Angles were put forward:


1. Dacer was executed due to his knowledge of the BW SHARES scandal. Who executed him? Several theories:


1.1. A unit within PAOCTF reportedly headed by Cesar Mancao. According to several PAOCTF members, only Mancao got the order from alleged conspiracist Dante Tan. Michael Ray Aquino and Ping Lacson do not know about it. There is a current practice in the police force of "special projects". These "projects" constitute assassination. Mancao reportedly got the job order from Tan directly.


This explains why Mancao is so ashamed to reveal this aspect of the case. They operated on Dacer mainly upon the orders of Tan. Tan, being very close to Erap, has a direct communications with the PAOCTF team.


That explains why Michael Ray Aquino's public pronouncement yesterday involves exonerating both Lacson and Estrada. They have nothing to do with the death of Bubby Dacer . 


Dante Tan must surface immediately to clear his name on this one. There are also several talks of reviving the investigation on the BELLE CORPORATION/BW SHARES SCANDAL.

Dacer-Corbito Murder Case: Lacson--Mancao was forced to sign affidavit

When he was still Inquirer columnist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and former legal counsel for Mrs. Arroyo Antonio Carpio wrote a column about the Dacer-Corbito murder case. Basing his column on the hand-written testimony of former PAOCTF operative Dumlao, Carpio wrote extensively about the alleged document which purportedly show the link between former president Joseph "Erap" Estrada and the BW scam.

Carpio just validated my earlier entry as to the real reason behind the murder of Publicist Bubby Dacer. That explains one of the key statements made by former PAOCTF head Michael Ray Aquino, when Aquino reportedly asked Dumlao to case Dacer and get whatever documents he can get from his Manila Hotel office.

Before he was murdered, Dacer was privy to some documents that prove the business interest of Erap to the BW stock scam, which, at that time, was reportedly designed by Dante Tan.

Tan hired Dacer to contain the damage caused by media's intrusion on the stock scandal. Days before he was abducted, Dacer met Estrada. Estrada, as some sources say, tried to prevail upon Dacer. Dacer refused and dropped Tan as client.

Tan is now based in Canada and until now, refuses to testify about this alleged abduction and murder of Bubby Dacer.

I will now modify my earlier entry in light of the recent publication of the affidavit of former PAOCTF Task Force Luzon Head Cezar Mancao.

It seems that Lacson knew of the abduction but tried to contain it because PAOCTF men were involved in the murder. Based on knowledgeable sources, PAOCTF men were tapped to execute the special operations NOT upon orders of Lacson but of someone who was being hit by a scandal at that time. It was a special ops alright, but it was a contract killing, not in the name of national security as what is being peddled in the media right now. But, a purely special ops enterprise by some PAOCTF personnel.

By the way, who financed Dumlao's US$ 100,000 bail or surety bond in his extradition case in the United States?

Dante Tan---Mastermind behind Dacer's Murder?

Who ordered the killing of Bubby Dacer, the celebrated publicist who was shot, murdered and buried in a shallow grave in Cavite? Was it Senator Ping Lacson or a former Erap big man who now lives in Canada?

Justice secretary Raul Gonzales is thrilled to have under his eventual custody, former Col. Cesar Mancao, a close associate of former PNP chief and now Senator Ping Lacson, and Glenn Dumlao.

This early, Gonzales is like a kid, showing his prized possessions and bragging all around town that he now has the goods that would "shed light on the murder of Bubby Dacer".

The question is---does Gonzales really have the goods?

Mancao and Dumlao already admitted the murder. As early as 2002, these two already confessed the crime. The question is---who ordered the killing?

Malacanang wants to railroad justice by tagging Ping Lacson as the mastermind. They want him out of the presidential race.

But, is Ping really the mastermind?

What I remember during those times is this:

1. Where is Dante Tan? Remember Dante Tan was the Erap associate linked to the Belle scandal. Dante had an axe to grind against Bubby Dacer since, according to some of our friends, it concerns a blotched or failed deal. And what was that deal? It concerns a deal linked closely with the Erap government. Some say, Bubby Dacer refused to help Dante Tan when he was embroiled in the Belle Corporation scandal. Another says, Dante became angry with Bubby because a big government deal escaped from his hands because of Bubby Dacer.

Based on my sources, Dante Tan now lives in Canada.

What is clear was a few nights before Bubby Dacer disappeared, he was seen with some Erap associates. He was talking to them about how he can't stand it no more.

Dante Tan, obviously, denied his involvement in this murder. He was not investigated though. After the EDSA Dos revolution, Tan escaped and went abroad.

Maybe, it's best for Gonzales to probe Dante Tan. Some surmised that he escaped to avoid possible plunder charges. Yet, most believe he did so out of fear that he'll be exposed as the mastermind behind the Dacer-Corbito murders.