Justice Secretary Leila de Lima issued a warning to Daliah Guerrero-Pastor, widow of slain international car racer Ferdinand “Enzo” Pastor. De Lima said that if Pastor tries to leave the country, she will be liable for obstructing justice. De Lima made the pronouncement a day after the police filed a slew of charges against her, her reported lover and the police officer allegedly hired to kill her husband.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday issued an immigration lookout bulletin order (LBO) against Daliah (not Dahlia, as earlier recorded by the police), businessman Domingo “Sandy” de Guzman III and P02 Edgar Angel.
In complaints filed on Thursday by the Philippine National Police (PNP) in the DOJ, Daliah was sued for parricide and frustrated murder; De Guzman for murder, frustrated murder and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, and Angel for murder and frustrated murder.
The frustrated murder charges were in relation to the case of Paolo Salazar, Enzo Pastor’s helper who was wounded in the attack by a motorcycle-riding gunman at a Quezon City intersection on the night of June 12.
De Guzman and Angel were arrested by the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) on Aug. 26 and 23, respectively, while Daliah remained at large.
Under an LBO, immigration officers are placed on the lookout or alert for crime suspects in the event that they pass through immigration counters in any of our international airports or seaports, according to De Lima.
Speaking to reporters, the DOJ chief explained that while the LBO may not prevent Daliah from leaving the country, her departure would make her liable for obstruction of justice.
“As of now she’s a person of interest…In an LBO, we can’t prevent them from (making a) departure legally,” said De Lima. “If she attempts to leave, it is clear that she is trying to flee. It’s an indication of flight, an indication that she is evading possible prosecution. So if she knowingly does that, we can place that (act) under obstruction of justice.”
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Thursday said it had the travel records of a “Dalia Guerrero Pastor,’’ born Sept. 15, 1985, and that this person was still in the country. BI spokesperson Elaine Tan said this name emerged in the records as the closest to the one being mentioned so far in news reports about Pastor’s case.
The PNP earlier maintained that a love triangle led to Pastor’s murder, with Daliah and De Guzman having an illicit affair and the businessman hiring Angel to have the racing champion killed.
The police said Angel, after being arrested in a drug bust, later admitted his role in the murder plot and helped the QCPD track down De Guzman. The businessman allegedly hired Angel for the sake of his “friend” Daliah, claiming she was a battered wife.
With report by Tarra Quismundo
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