Who’s holding Kerwin Espinosa now? De Lima, the fiercest critic of President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drug war, asked if Espinosa was still under the custody of the Witness Protection Program (WPP) of the Department of Justice (DOJ) since he had already recanted his sworn statement. ADVERTISEMENTEspinosa had previously claimed giving P8 million in protection money to De Lima, purportedly to let him run his narcotics business in Eastern Visayas provinces. De Lima wondered why the DOJ apparently kept Espinosa’s supposed recantation under wraps. “Would it be too much to ask the new DOJ secretary, the incoming PNP chief and also the Senate to dig deeper into all these?

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 15, 2018 14:15 UTC