Mancao surrenders to CIDG

MANILA, Philippines - After years in hiding, former police official Cesar Mancao surrendered to the police on Monday to face the charges against him in connection with the 2000 murder of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito.

A police report said Mancao, 55, surrendered at around 11 a.m. to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-National Capital Region (CIDG-NCR) at Camp Crame in connection with the warrant of arrest for double murder issued by Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 18 Judge Myra Garcia-Fernandez on April 28, 2006.

Mancao underwent medical examination and booking. He is currently in the custody of the CIDG, according to the police report.

The Philippine National Police has yet to come out with an official statement on Mancao’s surrender as of yesterday.

The former police senior superintendent escaped from detention at the National Bureau of Investigation on May 2013 after he was discharged as a witness and has since became a fugitive. Mancao was supposed to be transferred to the Manila City Jail before he went into hiding.

At that time, he lamented the government was treating him as a suspect rather than as a witness in the case.

There were instances he taunted law enforcers by posting photographs of himself, including one just outside the Department of Justice compound in Manila.